to Cain, “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.” Here sin is portrayed as a crouching animal ready to pounce on the unsuspecting victim. Sin’s desire is to dominate and destroy Cain. Cain, however, has the ability to rule36 over sin and not be ruled by it. It seems much more sensible exegetically to me to gain insight on the meaning of a rare word from a similar text by