In Ezek. 24:7-8 a question of agency seems to arise. Who is the agent who
put the blood on the bare rock? Is there really a shift of agency between
verse 7 and 8?
In the LXX there is no shift. #mthw is rendered tetacha auto, a first person
singular and #pkthw is rendered ekkechuka, a first person singular. But in
the MT there seems to be a shift of agency between verse 7 and 8.
The translator of the TEV seems to have suffered from similar misgivings as
the LXX but solved somewhat differently. Agency is muted in verse 7 and made
explicit in verse 8.
TEV
Ezek. 24:7 There was murder in the city, but the blood was not spilled on
the ground where the dust could hide it; it was spilled on a bare rock.
Ezek. 24:8 I have left the blood there, where it cannot be hidden, where it
demands angry revenge.²
The last clause here "where it demands angry revenge" brings out the point
made by J.W. Wevers (Notes on the Greek Text of Leviticus, 269-70) comments
on:
Lev. 17:13 w#pK )t dmw wkshw b(pr
"Blood not covered by soil could be misunderstood as spilt blood, which
lying out in the open would demand some kind of retribution; comp Ezek.
24:7-8."