Verses 4-5a list the names of the sons born to Esau’s three wives. In some translations verses 2-5a are restructured to place the names of the sons with the name of their mothers; this results in three paragraphs, each of which has the form, for example, “He married Adah who was … Adah had a son whose name was Eliphaz….”

Quoted with permission from Reyburn, William D. and Fry, Euan McG. A Handbook on Genesis. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1997. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .