OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 4:7

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“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered.

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Verse 7. Months. The latter rain falls in April. See Deuteronomy 11:14. Calmet.—Harvest. Septuagint have as usual, “vintage.” But this is less accurate, as it never rains in the preceding summer months. Saint Jerome

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