Original sentence: About three thousand families were deported, and it is recorded that many drowned while crossing the Arax river.After the deportation was completed the town was destroyed by fire to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Ottomans.In 1606, a second deportation was made of the surviving population that had managed to escape the first deportation.The deported inhabitants were taken to an area near Isfahan, where a new town was built for them, New Julfa or New Jugha.They were given three days to leave, with the threat of massacre if they did not
Edited sentence: "We left houses full of goods, the herds in the fields ... the entire population was turned out of their land ... how many were pushed out at the point of swords and spears ... their moans and groans reaching the skies".About three thousand families were deported from Jugha, and it is recorded that many drowned while crossing the Arax river.After the deportation was completed the town was destroyed by fire to prevent anyone returning.Another eyewitness, Augustus Badjetsi, bishop of Nakhchivan, wrote about the forced migrations, saying that the Persians entered the Armenian villages "like thunder from the sky".In 1606 a second deportation was made of the surviving population that had managed to escape the first deportation.The deported inhabitants were taken to an area near Isfahan, where they built a new town, New Julfa or New Jugha.The sudden and dramatic downfall of Jugha made a deep and lasting impression within Armenian society.They were given three days to leave, with the threat of massacre if they did not (according to the chronicler Arakel Davrizhetzi, an eyewitness to the event)