And all the plain on this side of Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, below the slopes of Pisgah.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Wilderness, which Moses commonly calls the salt sea, (on account of the asphalte with which it abounds,) or the sea of Araba, as it lies at the extremity of the plains of Moab, which are sometimes called Araboth, "deserts "because they were more fit for pasturage than for ploughing. (Calmet)
