"... THE ONKELOS TRANSLATION was copied by hand before the invention of the printing press in 1447. Many of the scribes had scant knowledge of Aramaic, which was the language of commerce in the Mediterranean area for about a millennium, but was rarely used after the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era. Hence the various Onkelos texts have multiple errors. For example, Scripture’s hamaarekhet in Leviticus 24:6 and 7 is singular; the Sperber text retains the singular, but the Berliner text pluralizes it in 24:7. Later in 24:16, both of these texts lack the kaf before Keir, although it is retained in other Onkelos versions. In 24:22, where the word reappears, only Berliner omits the kaf. Because of this phenomenon, anyone attempting to read meaning into the targumic wording must compare Targum texts ..."