Zechariah 3:8

Hebrew Bible

8 Listen now, Joshua the high priest, both you and your colleagues who are sitting before you, all of you are a symbol that I am about to introduce my servant, the Branch. 9 As for the stone I have set before Joshua—on the one stone there are seven eyes. I am about to engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, ‘to the effect that I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.

LXX Zechariah 3:8

Septuagint

7 “This says the Lord Almighty: ‘You shall walk in my ways and observe my commands; then you will judge my house. And if you keep watch over my court, then I will give to you the ones returning in the middle of these who are established. 8 Hear then, Joshua, the great priest, you and the ones close to you, the ones seated before your face, since they are wonder-observing men. Because behold, I bring out my servant, the Rising Sun. 9 Because the stone that I gave before the face of Joshua, upon the one stone there are seven eyes. Behold, I am digging a pit,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will touch every injustice of that land in one day.

 Notes and References
"... the Septuagint often makes it more difficult to recognize a reference to an eschatological messiah in such texts.” The term προσδοκία in Genesis 49:10 presupposes ('hope') instead of ('obedience'); the term ἀνατολή ('the rising of the sun') in Jeremiah 23:5–6 and Zechariah called to the mind the image of the rising sun ..."

Meiser, Martin The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays (pp. 106-107) Mohr Siebeck, 2022

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