Now these are the descendants of Terah: the wording here is identical to the opening of 6.9; 10.1. These points ahead to his three sons.

Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran: was the father of translates the same verb used in the generation formulas in 5.3, 4, 6, 9, and so on.

And Haran was the father of Lot does not begin a genealogy of Haran but only serves to introduce Lot, who accompanied his grandfather Terah to Haran, and who later goes with Abram to Canaan.

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 .