I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted. The third curse level targets children, livestock, and population: wild animals attacking children and cattle, the community reduced to sparse numbers with deserted roads. The reversal of the demographic blessing (fruitfulness and increasing numbers, verse 9) is the curse of depopulation through the wild animals' attacks. The deserted roads that communicate the extent of the population reduction are the visible evidence of the curse's comprehensiveness.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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