Generation:
In the long‐lived patriarchal age a generation seems to have been computed at 100 years (Genesis 15:16 compare Genesis 15:13 and Exodus 12:40). But subsequently the reckoning was the same which has been adopted by modern civilized nations, viz. from thirty to forty years (Job 42:16). (Generation is also used to signify the men of an age or time, as contemporaries (Genesis 6:9; Isaiah 53:8) posterity, especially in legal formulae (Leviticus 3:17 etc.); fathers, or ancestors (Psalm 49:19).
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