The former rain — The autumn rain which is needful to mellow the earth and fit it to receive the corn. The latter rain — Needful to bring forward and ripen the fruits, accounted the latter rain because these husbandmen and vine — dressers reckoned from seed time to spring and harvest. The first month — That is, our March.
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Joel 2:23
23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.