(September 11, 2012 at 11:03 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Quick question, if I may: where did the figure of forty years for a generation come from? Why not twenty-four generations of 20 years each?
The number 40 was a popular estimate number used in Canaanite cultures (not just limited to the Israelites). To us, it would be like a cross between the numbers 7 and 10.
Also for Westerners, a generation is seen how long it takes for one generation to beget the next. For them, it was how long the average people were on the earth...in early times in the Bible, the generations were considerably longer.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
