 The Septuagint, Targums, and the Vulgate deal with the issue by regarding the "Meribah" in the Book of Numbers as simply being a common noun, rather than a place-name, rendering "Me Meribath-Kadesh" as "the waters of strife in Kadesh" rather than as "the waters of Meribah in Kadesh".The identification of Rephidim is heavily dependent on the identification of the Biblical Mount Sinai, which the biblical narrative portrays the Israelites as having reached shortly after they had left Rephidim.Traditionally, Sinai was equated with one of the mountains at the south of the Sinai Peninsula leading to the identification of Rephidim as the "Wadi Refayid", a location roughly 8 miles south from Jebel Musa; this would make it quite difficult to equate the Meribah in Rephidim with the Meribah near Kadesh-Barnea.