'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.