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Lexicon :: Strong's H1755 - dôr

Aa
דּוֹר
Transliteration
dôr
Pronunciation
dore
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 418b

Strong’s Definitions

דּוֹר dôwr, dore; or (shortened) דֹּר dôr; from H1752; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling:—age, × evermore, generation, (n-) ever, posterity.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 167x

The KJV translates Strong's H1755 in the following manner: generation (133x), all (18x), many (6x), miscellaneous (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 167x
The KJV translates Strong's H1755 in the following manner: generation (133x), all (18x), many (6x), miscellaneous (10x).

  1. period, generation, habitation, dwelling

    1. period, age, generation (period of time)

    2. generation (those living during a period)

    3. generation (characterised by quality, condition, class of men)

    4. dwelling-place, habitation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דּוֹר dôwr, dore; or (shortened) דֹּר dôr; from H1752; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling:—age, × evermore, generation, (n-) ever, posterity.
STRONGS H1755: Abbreviations
† I. דּוֺר, דֹּר noun masculineDeuteronomy 32:5 period, generation, dwelling (compare below verb above; also Late Hebrew דּוֺר, Aramaic (included Biblical Aramaic) H1859 דָּר, RxD, age, generation; Arabic دَوْرً gyrus, orbis, periodus; Sabean דר, one time, once, דרם דרם each once in a year DHM in MV) — absolute דּוֺר Genesis 7:1 + 68 times; דֹּר Exodus 3:15; + 36 times; construct דּוֺר Deuteronomy 32:20 + 7 times, דֹּר Exodus 3:15; suffix דּוֺרִי Isaiah 38:12, דּוֺרוֺ Isaiah 53:8; plural דּוֺרִים Psalm 72:5 + 2 times, דֹּרוֺת absolute Job 42:16; Isaiah 41:4; construct Judges 3:2; דּוֺרוֺת construct Isaiah 51:9, דֹּרֹת Genesis 9:12; suffix דֹּרֹתָיו Genesis 6:9; Leviticus 25:30, דּוֺרוֺתֵינוּ Joshua 22:27, דֹּרֹתֵינוּ Joshua 22:28, דּרֹתֵיכֶם Genesis 17:12 + 27 times, דֹּרֹתָם Genesis 17:7 + 10 times; —
1. period, age, generation, mostly poetic:
a. of duration in the past, former age(s) דּוֺרוֺת עוֺלָמִים Isaiah 51:9 (|| קדם ימי); שְׁנוֺת דֹּר וָדֹר Deuteronomy 32:7 (song; || ימות עולם); בְּדֹר וָדֹר Psalm 90:1 (compare Psalm 90:2); מוֺסְדֵי דּוֺרוָֿדוֺר Isaiah 58:12 (|| חרבות עולם); שֹׁמֲמוֺת דּוֺר וָדוֺר Isaiah 61:4 (|| id.)
b. usually of duration to come, future age(s), לְדֹר דֹּר Exodus 3:15 (E; || לעולם) compare Proverbs 27:24 Kt (Qr לְדוֺר וָדוֺר; || id.); מִדֹּר דֹּר Exodus 17:16 (E), = מִדּוֺר לָדוֺר Isaiah 34:10; לְדֹר וָדֹר Psalm 10:6; Psalm 33:11 (|| לעולם) Psalm 49:12; Psalm 79:13; Psalm 85:6; Psalm 102:13; Psalm 119:90; Psalm 135:13; Psalm 146:10; Joel 4:20 (all || id.); Psalm 89:2 (|| עולם) Psalm 89:5 (|| עדעֿולם) Psalm 106:31 (|| id.) Isaiah 34:17 (|| id.); Psalm 77:9 (|| לנצח); עַדדֹּֿר וָדֹר Psalm 100:5 (|| לעולם) Isaiah 13:20 (|| לנצח) Jeremiah 50:39 (|| id.); בְּכָלדֹּֿר וָדֹר Jeremiah 45:18 (|| לעולם ועד) compare Esther 9:28; שְׁנוֺתָיו כְּמוֺ דֹר וָדֹר Psalm 61:7 compare שְׁנֵי דּוֺר וָדוֺר Joel 2:2 (|| העולם); as modifying phrase מְשׂוֺשׂ דּוֺר וָדוֺר Isaiah 60:15 (|| נאון עולם); further דּוֺר דּוֺרִים Psalm 72:5; יְשׁוּעָתִי לְדוֺר דּוֺרִים Isaiah 51:8 (|| לעולם).
c. apparently including both past and future בְּדוֺר דּוֺרִים שְׁנוֺתֶיךָ Psalm 102:25; בְּכָל דּוֺר וָדֹר Psalm 145:13; לְדוֺר וָדוֺר Lamentations 5:19.
2. of men living at a particular time (period, age), generation, as transitory דּוֺר הֹלֵךְ וְדוֺר בָּא Ecclesiastes 1:4: specifically
a. in the present, and (or) the past Genesis 7:1 (J) Exodus 1:6 (P) Numbers 32:13 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:35; Deuteronomy 2:14; Judges 2:10 (twice in verse); Isaiah 53:8 (compare Che critical note) Jeremiah 2:31; also Psalm 95:10; Job 8:8; Isaiah 41:4.
b. Judges 3:2 (present & future); compare plural דֹּרֹתָיו Genesis 6:9 (i.e. his own Generation and those immediately contiguous, before and after).
c. especially of a future Generation Genesis 15:16 (JE), with numeral, compare Deuteronomy 23:3; Deuteronomy 23:4; Deuteronomy 23:9; also Deuteronomy 29:21; Psalm 48:14; Psalm 71:18; Psalm 78:4; Psalm 78:6; Psalm 102:19; Psalm 109:13; Joel 1:3 compare Psalm 22:31; Psalm 22:32 (Checritical note); of a succession of generations דּוֺר לְדוֺר יְשַׂבַּח מַעֲשֶׂיךָ Psalm 145:4; בְּכָלדּֿוֺר וָדוֺר Esther 9:28; usually plural לְדֹרֹת עוֺלָם Genesis 9:12 (P); with number לְאֶלֶף דּוֺר Psalm 105:8 (|| עולם) = 1 Chronicles 16:15 (|| לעולם); Deuteronomy 7:9; see further, of posterity, אַרְבָּעָה דֹּרוֺת Job 42:16; usually plural with suffix Genesis 17:7, 9, 12; Exodus 12:14, 17, 42; Exodus 16:32, 33; Exodus 27:21; Exodus 29:42; Exodus 30:8, 10, 21, 31; Exodus 31:13, 16; Exodus 40:15; Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 6:11; Leviticus 7:36; Leviticus 10:9 (all P); Leviticus 17:7; Leviticus 21:17; Leviticus 22:3; Leviticus 23:14, 21, 31, 41, 43; Leviticus 24:3; Leviticus 25:30 (all H); Numbers 9:10; Numbers 10:8; Numbers 15:14, 15, 21, 23, 38; Numbers 18:23; Numbers 35:29; Joshua 22:27, 28 (all P).
3. generation characterized by quality or condition, class of men: דּוֺר עִקֵּשׁ crooked Generation Deuteronomy 32:5 (song) compare Deuteronomy 32:20; Psalm 78:8 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 7:29; of different classes of wicked, Proverbs 30:11, 12, 13, 14 compare Psalm 12:8; of the righteous, as a class Psalm 14:5; Psalm 24:6; Psalm 73:15 (בָּנֶיךָ דּוֺר) Psalm 112:2 (compare Psalm 22:31 MT, but < Che joins לדור to Psalm 22:32 compare above below 2c); so also דּוֺר אֲבוֺתָיו i.e. the dead Psalm 49:20 (so most; yet see below below 4).
4. dwelling-place, habitation Isaiah 38:12 compare דּוּר verb, so Saad Ki Ges De Che RVm (Ew life || חַיַּי); so also Psalm 49:20 De Witt, compare CheOP 479.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:9; 6:9; 7:1; 7:1; 9:12; 9:12; 15:16; 17:7; 17:7; 17:9; 17:12; 17:12

Exodus

1:6; 3:15; 3:15; 3:15; 12:14; 12:17; 12:42; 16:32; 16:33; 17:16; 27:21; 29:42; 30:8; 30:10; 30:21; 30:31; 31:13; 31:16; 40:15

Leviticus

3:17; 6:11; 7:36; 10:9; 17:7; 21:17; 22:3; 23:14; 23:21; 23:31; 23:41; 23:43; 24:3; 25:30; 25:30

Numbers

9:10; 10:8; 15:14; 15:15; 15:21; 15:23; 15:38; 18:23; 32:13; 35:29

Deuteronomy

1:35; 2:14; 7:9; 23:3; 23:4; 23:9; 29:21; 32:5; 32:5; 32:7; 32:20; 32:20

Joshua

22:27; 22:27; 22:28; 22:28

Judges

2:10; 3:2; 3:2

1 Chronicles

16:15

Esther

9:28; 9:28

Job

8:8; 42:16; 42:16

Psalms

10:6; 12:8; 14:5; 22:31; 22:31; 24:6; 33:11; 48:14; 49:12; 49:20; 49:20; 61:7; 71:18; 72:5; 72:5; 73:15; 77:9; 78:4; 78:6; 78:8; 79:13; 85:6; 89:2; 89:5; 90:1; 90:2; 95:10; 100:5; 102:13; 102:19; 102:25; 105:8; 106:31; 109:13; 112:2; 119:90; 135:13; 145:4; 145:13; 146:10

Proverbs

27:24; 30:11; 30:12; 30:13; 30:14

Ecclesiastes

1:4

Isaiah

13:20; 34:10; 34:17; 38:12; 38:12; 41:4; 41:4; 51:8; 51:9; 51:9; 53:8; 53:8; 58:12; 60:15; 61:4

Jeremiah

2:31; 7:29; 50:39

Lamentations

5:19

Joel

1:3; 2:2

H1755

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Strong's Number H1755 matches the Hebrew דּוֹר (dôr),
which occurs 168 times in 127 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 6:9–Deu 2:14)

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These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:1 -

Then the LORD said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you with all your household, for you [alone] I have seen as righteous (doing what is right) before Me in this generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:12 - And God said, “This is the token (visible symbol, memorial) of the [solemn] covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - “Then in the [fn]fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the [fn]Amorites is not yet complete (finished).”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:7 - “I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

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Further, God said to Abraham, “As for you [your part of the agreement], you shall keep and faithfully obey [the terms of] My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12 - “Every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, [including] a servant whether born in the house or one who is purchased with [your] money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:6 - Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:15 - Then God also said to Moses, “This is what you shall say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob (Israel), has sent me to you.’ This is My [fn]Name forever, and this is My memorial [name] to all generations.

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‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as an ordinance forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17 - ‘You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your hosts [grouped according to tribal armies] out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an ordinance forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:42 - It is a night of watching to be observed for the LORD for having brought them out of the land of Egypt; this [same] night is for the LORD, to be observed and celebrated by all the Israelites throughout their generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Then Moses said, “This is the word which the LORD commands, ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:16 - saying, “The LORD has sworn [an oath]; the LORD will have war against [the people of] Amalek from generation to generation.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:21 - “In the Tent of Meeting [of God with His people], outside the veil which is in front of the [ark of the] Testimony [and sets it apart], Aaron [the high priest] and his sons shall keep the lamp burning from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a perpetual statute [to be observed] throughout their generations on behalf of the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:42 - “This will be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:8 - “When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:10 - “Once a year Aaron shall make atonement [for sin] on its horns. He shall make atonement on it with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once a year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:21 - “They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they will not die; it shall be a perpetual statute for them, for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:31 - “You shall say to the Israelites, ‘This shall be a holy and sacred anointing oil, to Me [alone] throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:13 - “But as for you, say to the Israelites, ‘You shall most certainly observe My Sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, so that you may know [without any doubt] and acknowledge that I am the LORD who sanctifies you and sets you apart [for Myself].

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:16 - ‘So the Israelites shall observe the Sabbath, to celebrate the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:15 - you shall anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may serve as priests to Me; and their anointing shall qualify them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:17 - ‘It is a permanent statute for your generations wherever you may be, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:18 - ‘Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it [as his share]; it is a permanent ordinance throughout your generations, from offerings by fire to the LORD. [fn]Whatever touches them will become consecrated (ceremonially clean).’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:36 - ‘The LORD commanded this to be given to the priests by the Israelites on the day that He anointed them. It is their portion perpetually throughout their generations.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9 - “[fn]Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the Tent of Meeting, so that you will not die—it is a permanent statute throughout your generations—

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:7 - “So they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to goat-idols or demons or field spirits with which they have played the prostitute. This shall be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:17 - “Say to Aaron, ‘Throughout their generations none of your descendants who has any [physical] defect shall approach [the altar] to present the food of his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:3 - “Say to them, ‘Any one of your descendants throughout your generations who approaches the holy things which the Israelites dedicate to the LORD, while he is [ceremonially] unclean, that person shall be cut off from My presence and excluded from the sanctuary; I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14 - ‘You shall not eat any bread or roasted grain or new growth, until this same day when you bring in the offering to your God; it is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you may be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - ‘On this same day you shall make a proclamation, you are to have a holy convocation (calling together); you shall not do any laborious work [on that day]. It is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you may be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:31 - “You shall do no work at all [on that day]. It is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you may be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:41 - ‘You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:43 - so that your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3 - “Outside the veil of the Testimony [between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place] in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall always keep the lamps [fn]burning before the LORD from evening until morning; it shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - ‘But if it is not redeemed for him within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently and irrevocably to the purchaser throughout his generations. It does not revert back in the Year of Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - “Say to the Israelites, ‘If any one of you or of your descendants becomes [ceremonially] unclean because of [touching] a dead body or is on a distant journey, he may, however, observe the Passover to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:8 - “The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and the trumpets shall be for you a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:14 - ‘If a stranger lives as a resident alien with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to make an offering by fire, as a sweet and soothing aroma to the LORD, just as you do, so shall he do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:15 - ‘As for the assembly, there shall be one [and the same] statute for you [of the congregation] and for the stranger who is a resident alien with you, a permanent statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:21 - ‘From the first of your dough (ground grain) you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:23 - even all that the LORD has commanded you [fn]through Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandments and onward throughout your generations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:38 - “Speak to the sons of Israel and tell them to make for themselves tassels on the hems of their garments throughout their generations, and put a cord of blue on the tassel of each hem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - “Only the Levites shall perform the service of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, that the Levites shall have no inheritance [of land] among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - “So the LORD’S anger was kindled against the sons of Israel (Jacob) and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the LORD was destroyed.

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‘These things shall be a statute for you throughout your generations wherever you may be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:35 - ‘Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore (solemnly promised) to give to your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:14 - “Now thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley, until that entire generation of the men of war had died from within the camp, just as the LORD had sworn to them.

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