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The familial order will be so disrupted and the family economy so bankrupt that each will need to concentrate on his immediate family rather than the extended family. Thus, the breakdown affects not only the community at large, but even the built-in organizational structures of the family. All will be torn apart.

Comparison: The Book of Mormon adds a not to verse 6: “and let not this ruin come under thy hand.” Both Tvedtnes and Skousen indicate that this is intrusive and, in Skousen’s words “reverses the polarity of the original Isaiah text.”