Iraq is bordered by the strong states of Turkey and Iran in the north and east, and is separated from Saudi Arabia in the south and Syria and Jordan to the west by immense tracts of desert.
It was they who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its Banks, and they put to flight everyone living in the valleys, to the east and to the west.
正月，约旦河水涨过两岸的时候，他们过河，使一切住平原的人东奔西逃。
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These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his Banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.