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perpetual

Meaning of “perpetual”

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

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28 occurrences28 verses9 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 9:12

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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.

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