'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.