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And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation.

And God spake further vnto Moyses, Thus shalt thou say vnto the chyldren of Israel: The Lorde God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isahac, and the God of Iacob hath sent me vnto you: This is my name for euer, and this is my memoriall into generation and generation.

There shall not one of these men, and of this frowarde generation, see that good lande whiche I sware to geue vnto your fathers:

This is also the worde of the Lorde which he spake vnto Iehu, saying: Thy sonnes shall sit on the seate of Israel in the fourth generation after thee. And so it came to passe.

After this liued Iob an hundred and fourtie yeres: so that he sawe his children, and his childrens children into the fourth generation.

[Wherfore] thou wylt kepe the godly, O God: thou wylt preserue euery one of them from this generation for euer.

This is the generation of them that seke hym: euen of them that seke thy face [in] Iacob. Selah.

Wherfore whylest I am olde and am gray headed: O Lorde forsake me not, vntyll I haue shewed thy arme vnto [this] generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

If I shoulde say that I woulde iudge after this sort: lo then I shoulde condempne the generation of thy children.

Fourtie yeres long was I greeued with that generation: and I sayde this people erreth in heart, and they haue not knowen my wayes.

And all they that remaine of this wicked generation, shal desire rather to die then to liue, whersoeuer they remaine, and where as I scatter them, saith the Lorde of hoastes.

This is the booke of the generation of Iesus Christ, the sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham.

But whervnto shall I liken this generation? It is like vnto litle children, which sit in the markettes, and call vnto their felowes,

The Queene of the south shall ryse in the iudgement, with this generation, and shall condemne it: for she came from the vtmost partes of the earth, to heare the wisdome of Solomon. And beholde, in this place [is] one greater then Solomon.

Then goeth he, and taketh vnto hym seuen other spirites, worse then hym selfe, and they enter in, and dwell there: And the ende of that man, is worse then the begynnyng. Euen so shall it be also, vnto this frowarde generation.

Ueryly I say vnto you: this generation shall not passe, tyll all these thynges be fulfylled.

And when he had sighed depely in his spirite, he sayth: Why doth this generatio seke a signe? Ueryly I say vnto you, there shall no signe be geue vnto this generation.

Whosoeuer therfore shalbe ashamed of me, and of my wordes, in this adulterous and synnefull generation: of hym also shall the sonne of man be ashamed, when he commeth in the glorie of his father, with the holy Angels.

Ueryly I say vnto you, that this generation shall not passe, tyll all these thynges be done.

And the Lorde sayde: Whervnto shall I lyken the men of this generation? and what [thyng] are they lyke?