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perpetual

Meaning of “perpetual”

Continuing, enduring, or regularly recurring without interruption through the duration in view.

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First occurrence: Genesis 9:12

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Genesis 9:12
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
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1611 witness · Genesis 9:12 · retained source text

And God said, This is the token of the Couenant which I make betweene mee and you, and euery liuing creature that is with you, for perpetuall generations.

Exodus 29:9
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
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1611 witness · Exodus 29:9 · retained source text

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, (Aaron and his sonnes) and put the bonnets on them: and the priests office shall be theirs for a perpetuall statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sonnes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bind.

1611 marginal noteHeb. fill the hand of.

1611 marginal noteChap. 28.41.

Exodus 30:8
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
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1611 witness · Exodus 30:8 · retained source text

And when Aaron lighteth the lampes at euen, he shall burne incense vpon it, a perpetuall incense before the LORD, throughout your generations.

1611 marginal noteOr, setteth vp. Heb. causeth to ascend.

1611 marginal noteHeb. betweene the two euens.

Exodus 31:16
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
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1611 witness · Exodus 31:16 · retained source text

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keepe the Sabbath, to obserue the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetuall couenant.

Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
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1611 witness · Leviticus 3:17 · retained source text

It shall be a perpetuall statute for your generations, throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat, nor blood.

1611 marginal noteGene. 9.4. chap. 7.26. and 17.14.

Leviticus 6:20
This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the Lord in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
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1611 witness · Leviticus 6:20 · retained source text

This is the offering of Aaron, and of his sonnes which they shall offer vnto the LORD, in the day when he is anoynted: The tenth part of an Ephah of fine flowre for a meat offering perpetuall, halfe of it in the morning, and halfe thereof at night.

1611 marginal noteExod. 16.36.

Leviticus 24:9
And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.
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1611 witness · Leviticus 24:9 · retained source text

And it shall be Aarons and his sonnes, and they shall eate it in the holy place: for it is most holy vnto him, of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, by a perpetuall statute.

1611 marginal noteExod. 29.33. chap. 8.31. mat. 12.1,5.

Leviticus 25:34
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
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1611 witness · Leviticus 25:34 · retained source text

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetuall possession.

Numbers 19:21
And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
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1611 witness · Numbers 19:21 · retained source text

And it shall be a perpetuall statute vnto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation, shall wash his clothes: and he that toucheth the water of separation, shall be vncleane vntill Euen.

Psalms 9:6
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
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1611 witness · Psalms 9:6 · retained source text

O thou enemie, destructions are come to a perpetuall end; and thou hast destroyed cities, their memoriall is perished with them.

1611 marginal noteOr, the destructions of the enemy are come to a perpetuall end: and their cities hast thou destroyed, &c.

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