“... 11. THE PASS. Scripture has many place-names in the rest of this chapter. Onkelos translates eight instead of treating them as names (Iyei = pass, Waheb = gave, Beer = well, Mattanah = give, Nahaliel = descend, Bamoth = high, Hagai = valley, and Pisgah = height), updates three to the name known to the targumic audience (Suphah = Sea of Reeds, Ar = Lehayath, and Bashan = Matnan), and retains the rest. [...] 14. THEREFORE...ARNON. Scripture’s “Therefore it says in a book, Wars of the Lord: Waheb in Suphah and the Valleys Arnon” is obscure. The Hebrew and Aramaic for “says” is in the future tense both here and in verse 27, but most translators ignore this and substitute the present tense because this is not a prophecy but a mere statement of fact. [...] By adding “the” to “book” our translator seems to differ with Rashi. He may have the Pentateuch in mind, and not another volume entitled “Wars of the Lord.” Neophyti and Pseudo-Jonathan state this explicitly: “in the book of the Torah.” However, some medieval commentators, such as Nachmanides, Chazkunee, ibn Ezra, and Saadiah, consider the volume “Wars of the ...”