THE LATE RAIN — the spring rain that fills the grain before harvest, always paired with its opposite number YOREH, the autumn rain that softens baked ground for the plough. Hebrew names the agricultural year by its two ends rather than by month, and missing either one means no crop. ⭐ Deuteronomy 11:14 is the word's FIRST appearance in the Bible; it stands in eight verses altogether and the other seven are all later (Jeremiah 3:3 and 5:24, Hosea 6:3, Joel 2:23, Zechariah 10:1, Job 29:23, Proverbs 16:15 — none yet on these pages), three of them reusing this verse's exact pairing. ⚠ The shelf divides between translating the SEQUENCE and translating the SEASON: the KJV's 'the first rain and the latter rain' and the ASV's 'the former rain and the latter rain' keep the order the Hebrew names, while the modern versions name autumn and spring instead and thereby hide that Hebrew is counting, not dating. → first discussed at Deut 11:14