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The answer to this question is twofold.
Holman Bible Dictionary has an article that explains how quotations are signified in the New Testament. The most common way to identify quotations in the new testament is by wording (especially verbage) that indicates something has been said or written elsewhere or earlier.
Quotations From the Scripture/Word: “as ...
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If you read the text straight through without the division into chapters, chapter 28 seems to flow naturally from the end of 27 -- the chapter division almost seems to be in the middle of a thought. I don't know why the chapters were divided the way they were, but they are not in the original text. Chapters 29-31 read clearly as one discourse. So I don't ...
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My translation from the beginning of 13:
1When Ephraim speaks they tremble,
For he's a prince in Israel, [reading nasi instead of nasa]
But he's guilty of Baal worship, he's dead.
2And now they continue to sin,
they made an image from silver,
to fit their own idolatrous ideas,
the whole thing is a work of craftsmen,
of them it is said,
...
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The Hebrew for the last clause is:
לָהֶם הֵם אֹמְרִים זֹבְחֵי אָדָם, עֲגָלִים יִשָּׁקוּן.
Most literally this is:
To (or for) them they say: sacrificers (or slaughterers) of man calves they kiss.
(I'm taking the agreement of all these translations on "kiss" at face value; I don't know that Hebrew word.)
Of the translations quoted in the ...
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2. And now, they continue to sin, and they have made for themselves a molten image from their silver according to their pattern, deities,
all of it the work of craftsmen; to them say, "Those who sacrifice man
may kiss the calves."
And now: Jehu’s dynasty, who saw all this, continue to sin.
according to their pattern: Heb. ...
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