'Generation' in the Bible

And Jehovah saith to Noah, 'Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

and Joseph looketh on Ephraim's sons of the third generation; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph.

And Joseph dieth, and all his brethren, and all that generation;

And God saith again unto Moses, 'Thus dost thou say unto the sons of Israel, Jehovah, God of your fathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is My name -- to the age, and this My memorial, to generation -- generation.

and saith, 'Because a hand is on the throne of Jah, war is to Jehovah with Amalek from generation -- generation.'

Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third generation, and on a fourth.'

Jehovah is slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third generation, and on a fourth; --

and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He causeth them to wander in the wilderness forty years, until the consumption of all the generation which is doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah.

Not one of these men of this evil generation doth see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,

And the days which we have walked from Kadesh-Barnea until that we have passed over the brook Zered, are thirty and eight years, till the consumption of all the generation of the men of battle from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah hath sworn to them;

thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third generation, and on a fourth, to those hating Me;

a bastard doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of him doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

An Ammonite and a Moabite doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of them doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah -- to the age;

sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, doth enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who cometh in from a land afar off, have said when they have seen the strokes of that land, and its sicknesses which Jehovah hath sent into it, --

It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!

And He saith: I hide My face from them, I see what is their latter end; For a froward generation are they, Sons in whom is no stedfastness.

and also all that generation have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation riseth after them who have not known Jehovah, and even the work which He hath done to Israel.

And Jehovah saith unto Jehu, 'Because that thou hast done well, to do that which is right in Mine eyes -- according to all that is in My heart thou hast done to the house of Ahab -- the sons of the fourth generation do sit for thee on the throne of Israel.'

It is the word of Jehovah that He spake unto Jehu, saying, 'Sons of the fourth generation do sit for thee on the throne of Israel;' and it is so.

and these days are remembered and kept in every generation and generation, family and family, province and province, and city and city, and these days of Purim do not pass away from the midst of the Jews, and their memorial is not ended from their seed.

For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

Thou, O Jehovah, dost preserve them, Thou keepest us from this generation to the age.

There they have feared a fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous.

A seed doth serve Him, It is declared of the Lord to the generation.

This is a generation of those seeking Him. Seeking Thy face, O Jacob! Selah.

Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,

It cometh to the generation of his fathers, For ever they see not the light.

Days to the days of the king Thou addest, His years as generation and generation.

And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

They fear Thee with the sun, and before the moon, Generation -- generations.

If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.

So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,

And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

'Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou -- Thou hast been, To us -- in generation and generation,

Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, 'A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'

For good is Jehovah, to the age His kindness, And to generation and generation His faithfulness!

This is written for a later generation, And the people created do praise Jah.

His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.

Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

Generation to generation praiseth Thy works, And Thy mighty acts they declare.

Jehovah doth reign to the age, Thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise ye Jah!

For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.

A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

A generation -- swords are their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.

A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.

By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.

By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued,

Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, And none passing through, I have made thee for an excellency age-during, A joy of generation and generation.

And they have built the wastes of old, The desolations of the ancients they raise up, And they have renewed waste cities, The desolations of generation and generation.

O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, 'We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.'

Cut off thy crown, and cast it away, And lift up on high places lamentation, For Jehovah hath rejected, And He leaveth the generation of His wrath.

Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.

His signs how great! and His wonders how mighty! His kingdom is a kingdom age-during, and His rule is with generation and generation.

And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes to the heavens have lifted up, and mine understanding unto me returneth, and the Most High I have blessed, and the Age-during Living One I have praised and honoured, whose dominion is a dominion age-during, and His kingdom with generation and generation;

Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation.

A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.

And Judah to the age doth dwell, And Jerusalem to generation and generation.

'And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades,

And he answering said to them, 'A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

'Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah, and lo, a greater than Jonah here!

'A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, a greater than Solomon here!

then doth it go, and take with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having gone in they dwell there, and the last of that man doth become worse than the first; so shall it be also to this evil generation.'

'A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

And Jesus answering said, 'O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I bear you? bring him to me hither;'

verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass.

and having sighed deeply in his spirit, he saith, 'Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.'

for whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also shall be ashamed of him, when he may come in the glory of his Father, with the holy messengers.'

And he answering him, said, 'O generation unbelieving, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I suffer you? bring him unto me;'

Verily I say to you, that this generation may not pass away till all these things may come to pass;

And the Lord said, 'To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

And Jesus answering said, 'O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you, and suffer you? bring near hither thy son;'

And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, 'This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet,

for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

'A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo, greater than Solomon here!

'Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah; and lo, greater than Jonah here!

that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;

from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

'And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.

and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.

verily I say to you -- This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;

Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, 'Be saved from this perverse generation;'

in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation -- who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.'

for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;