THe generations] This genealogie declareth that Esau was blessed temporally, and that his fathers blessing, Chap. 27. 39. tooke place in temporall things. The ambiguities and seeming repugnancies in this genealogie may be briefly reconciled by these rules. First, some persons have many names, as Esau is called also Edom, in the first verse; Jacob also is called Israel, Genesis 32:28. &35. 21, 22. So one of Esaus wives the daughter of Ishmael is called Mabalath, Genesis 29:9. and Bashemath, Genesis 36:3. and Sarah is called Ica, Chap. 11. 29. And this not onely in proper names, as in the instances forementioned, but in names Nationall, as the same person is called sometimes an Hittite, Chap. 26. 34. sometimes an Hivite, vers. 20. of this Chapter; because the Hivites were the greater Nation, and comprehended also the Hittites; and sometimes an Horite, vers. 24. of this Chapter: and the rather because the one might in habitation be mingled with the other. Secondly, sometime the same name is given to severall persons, as there were two called Anah, two called Corah, three called Dishn, or Dishan, in this Chapter. Thirdly, the grand-father is called also a father, and the grand-child (whether Nphew or Neece) a sonne or a daughter unto him, 2 Kings 8:18. 26. Fourthly, some are called sonnes of others who were not their naturall issue, but adopted children; as Amalek, whose mother was Timnah, yet is he called the sonne of Adah, vers. 12. to the one he was a naturall sonne, to the other a sonne adopted. Fifthly, some men had the names of women given unto them, as Timnah, and Aholibamah, mentioned vers. 40. 41. were called by the names of the first mothers of their nation.