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Human understanding again?

It's a vocabulary question.

But suppose you are right, If concurrent generations are alive at the same time by your usage,which you claim to be Biblical, though I surely don't see the word generation in your quote, then how do you know that the Bible is counting them "end-to-end" so to speak? Where, in so many words, does it say that?

It seems to me you make no distinction between "generation" and "lifetime."

To put it another way, here is what you say, with stresses added:

Psalm 90:10 The years of our lives are 70; and if by reason of strength they be 80 years, yet most of them are labor and sorrow; for life is soon cut off and we fly away.
Matthew 1:17 Therefore all the generations from Abraham down to David are 14 generations; and from David down to the Babylonian captivity are 14 generations; and from the Babylonian captivity down to the anointed, are 14 generations.
Matthew is using the Psalm 90 definitions of Generation in order to tell a specific chronological time story. The first interval of that story is strictly historical, the interval from Abraham to David.

The word generation does not appear in what you quote from Psalm 90. I see no definition of generation. Where exactly is the definition? I see "years of our lives" but the activity of "generation" takes place toward the earlier portion of the "three score and ten years mentioned in Psalm 90. I have never heard it suggested that "lifespan" and "generation" were synonyms in or out of the Bible. Where are they explicitly put forth as synonyms?

I THINK, I could be wrong, that you are assuming what you attempt to prove.

>>I THINK, I could be wrong, that you are assuming what you attempt to prove.<<

Here is a beginning to understanding the length of generations. Not all dates are exact and it is uncertain as to when the beginning and end of each generation is exactly but with additional study it becomes clear that a Biblical generation is considered to be 70 years.

Start with Matthew1:17.

Matthew 1:17 Therefore all the generations from Abraham down to David are 14 generations; and from David down to the Babylonian captivity are 14 generations; and from the Babylonian captivity down to the anointed, are 14 generations.

There are 14 generations from Abraham down to David.

From the source: http://media.aish.com/documents/Spiro_History_Timeline.PDF

Abraham was born in 1812 BC. Follow the Generations to David who’s reign began in 877 BC. That’s 941 years. Divide that by 14 and you get 67.21 years. Given some slight variables that still gives very close to the 70 year generation.

There are other sources and examples but I thought this one would allow for the seed for study.