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    "simple_definition": "Generation imagery uses lineage, age-to-age language, genealogies, or “all generations” formulas to picture covenant continuity, memory, mortality, inheritance, or redemptive history.",
    "technical_definition": "A lineage-and-continuity motif in which generations, genealogical records, fathers and children, age-to-age praise, or covenant succession signify remembered works of God, inherited responsibility, mortality, promise, or the historical unfolding of redemption.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 39 draft-normalized generations/time imagery review; distinguish genealogical record from theological generation language that carries covenant memory or redemptive continuity.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 5:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "This is the book of the generations of Adam",
      "explanation": "Genealogical record frames human history from Adam under creation and mortality.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Gen. 6:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "These are the generations of Noah",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Gen. 17:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "for an everlasting covenant... in their generations",
      "explanation": "The promise is carried through covenant generations.",
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      "reference": "Exod. 3:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "this is my memorial unto all generations",
      "explanation": "The LORD’s name is given as a generational memorial.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "representative": "no",
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      "reference": "Ps. 78:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD",
      "explanation": "Generational teaching preserves the memory of God’s works.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ps. 90:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations",
      "explanation": "God’s faithfulness is set against the passing of human generations.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ps. 100:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "his truth endureth to all generations",
      "explanation": "Generation language pictures enduring covenant faithfulness.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Matt. 1:17",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "all the generations from Abraham to David...",
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      "reference": "Acts 13:36",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "David... served his own generation by the will of God",
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      "reference": "Eph. 3:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "throughout all ages, world without end",
      "explanation": "Age-to-age language expands praise beyond one generation.",
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