'Generations' in the Bible
These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;
These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah:
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their generations: Ishmael's first son was Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam
Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:
And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:
These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.
And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations.
And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations.
And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.
So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever.
It is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out of the land of Egypt: this same night is a watch-night to the Lord for all the children of Israel, through all their generations.
And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt.
And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations.
And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.
Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy.
Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.
Every male among the children of Aaron may have it for food; it is their right for ever through all your generations, from the offerings made by fire to the Lord: anyone touching them will be holy.
Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.
And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.
Say to them, If any man of all your seed through all your generations, being unclean, comes near the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, he will be cut off from before me: I am the Lord.
And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living
And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living
You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.
So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your generations.
The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai.
And if a man from another country or any other person living among you, through all your generations, has the desire to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, let him do as you do.
Say to the children of Israel that through all their generations they are to put on the edges of their robes an ornament of twisted threads, and in every ornament a blue cord;
But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.
These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.
And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.
Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;
And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;
Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.
But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.
For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.
Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;
Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron;
These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam,
And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations.
And his brothers by their families, when the list of their generations was made up: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
And the sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam and Shemuel, heads of their families; they were men of war; in the record of their generations their number in the time of David was twenty-two thousand, six hundred.
And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.
And they were recorded by their generations, heads of their families, great men of war, twenty thousand, two hundred.
These were heads of families in their generations; chief men: these were living in Jerusalem.
And their brothers, in the list of their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of families, listed by the names of their fathers.
These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem.
He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;
Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of all the Hebronites, in their generations by families. In the fortieth year of the rule of David a search was made, and able men were seen among them at Jazer of Gilead.
Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:
And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.
The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.
I will keep the memory of your name living through all generations; and because of this the people will give you praise for ever.
The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.
You will give the king long life; and make his years go on through the generations.
May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations.
Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?
My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.
I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.)
Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.
He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;
And all the generations coming after him kept the memory of his righteousness for ever.
The Lord will be King for ever; your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.
For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.
Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.
The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.
For he has had pity on his servant, though she is poor and lowly placed: and from this hour will all generations give witness to the blessing which has come to me.
His mercy is for all generations in whom is the fear of him.
Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it.
The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,