generation

And the space in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, vntill we were come ouer the brooke Zered, was thirtie and eight yeeres; vntill all the generation of the men of warre were wasted out from among the hoste, as the LORD sware vnto them.

Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them: for I the LORD thy God am a ielous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

1611 marginal noteExod. 34.7.

A bastard shall not enter into the Congregation of the LORD: euen to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the Congregation of the LORD.

An Ammonite, or Moabite shall not enter into the Congregation of the LORD, euen to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the Congregation of the LORD for euer,

1611 marginal noteNehem. 13.1.

The children that are begotten of them, shal enter into the cōgregation of the LORD, in their third generation.

So that the generation to come of your children, that shall rise vp after you, and the stranger that shall come from a farre land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath layd vpon it;

1611 marginal noteHebr. wherewith the LORD hath made it sicke.

They haue corrupted themselues, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a peruerse and crooked generation.

1611 marginal noteHebr. he hath corrupted to himselfe.

1611 marginal noteOr, that they are not his children, that is their blot.

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their ende shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

And also all that generation were gathered vnto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the woorkes which hee had done for Israel.

And the LORD said vnto Iehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done vnto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation, shal sit on the throne of Israel.