'Generation' in the Bible
The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation.
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
There is to be one law for you and for the man of another country living with you, one law for ever from generation to generation; as you are, so is he to be before the Lord.
From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.
All the laws which the Lord has given you by the hand of Moses, from the day when the Lord gave them, and ever after from generation to generation;
And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.