Evidently the unit in 16:2–9 was once a companion piece to 15:15–21, but it has been made the nucleus of a separate composition decrying pagan religion, a theme that puts the basic piece to a new hermeneutical use. The literary system of compositions and blocks has been retained in MT with additional units sometimes slotted into it. The fundamental arrangement in compositions reveals that the collection of foreign oracles placed in LXX in the middle of ch. 25 is a first attempt to integrate them