and in time ¹  Joseph ²  and his brothers and all that generation died.

So these things must be a statutory ordinance ¹  for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

His people have been unfaithful ¹  to him; they have not acted like his children ²  – this is their sin. ³  They are a perverse ⁴  and deceitful generation.

Remember ¹  continually his covenantal decree, the promise he made ²  to a thousand generations –

“For inquire now of the former ¹  generation, and pay attention ²  to the findings ³  of their ancestors; ⁴ 

They are absolutely terrified, ¹  for God defends the godly. ² 

Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob’s descendants, who pray to him. ¹  (Selah)

If I had publicized these thoughts, ¹  I would have betrayed your loyal followers. ² 

He always remembers his covenantal decree, the promise he made ¹  to a thousand generations –

May his descendants ¹  be cut off! ²  May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! ³ 

His descendants ¹  will be powerful on the earth; the godly ²  will be blessed.

There is a generation ¹  who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers. ² 

Tell your children ¹  about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation. ² 

In the fourth generation ¹  your descendants ²  will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.” ³ 

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep ¹  the covenantal requirement ²  I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations.

they must wash ¹  their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this ²  will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants ³  throughout their generations.” ⁴ 

And you are to tell the Israelites: ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

This is ¹  a perpetual statute throughout your generations ²  in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’” ³