'Generation' in the Bible

The Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."

Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.