Leviticus 26:4

וְנָתַתִּי גִשְׁמֵיכֶם בְּעִתָּם וְנָתְנָה הָאָרֶץ יְבוּלָהּ וְעֵץ הַשָּׂדֶה יִתֵּן פִּרְיֽוֹ׃

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Hebrew

וְנָתַתִּ֥י גִשְׁמֵיכֶ֖ם בְּעִתָּ֑ם וְנָתְנָ֤ה הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ יְבוּלָ֔הּ וְעֵ֥ץ הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה יִתֵּ֥ן פִּרְיֽוֹ׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ δώσω τὸν ὑετὸν ὑμῖν ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἡ γῆ δώσει τὰ γενήματα αὐτῆς, καὶ τὰ ξύλα τῶν πεδίων ἀποδώσει τὸν καρπὸν αὐτῶν·

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

et terra gignet germen suum, et pomis arbores replebuntur.

Spanish

yo les enviaré las lluvias a su debido tiempo. La tierra dará sus cosechas y los árboles del campo darán su fruto.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Yo daré vuestra lluvia en su tiempo, y la tierra rendirá sus producciones, y el árbol del campo dará su fruto;

English

I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

✦ What the text says

Summary

Leviticus 26:4 describes a sequence of three agricultural provisions: the giving of rain in its proper time, the land yielding its produce, and the trees of the field giving their fruit. The verse is structured as a chain of consequences following an implied condition (given in the preceding verses).

Key words

na.ta.Ti ("I will give", H5414G) — qal sequential perfect, first person; the verb of giving, grammatically tied to what precedes it as part of a continuing sequence rather than a standalone action.
gish.mei.khem ("rains of you", H1653 + H9026) — masculine plural noun in construct with a second-person plural suffix; the plural form of "rains" (rather than singular "rain") is notable in the Hebrew.
nat.Nah ("she will give", H5414G) — same root as word 2, but here in the third person feminine, agreeing with 'A.retz ("land", H0776G), which is grammatically feminine.
yi.Ten ("he will give", H5414G) — same root again, third person masculine, agreeing with 'Etz ("tree", H6086H), grammatically masculine.
pir.Yo ("its fruit", H6529 + H9023) — masculine singular noun in construct with a third-person masculine singular suffix, referring back to the tree.

What the text says

The Hebrew verse repeats the same verbal root, natan ("to give", H5414G), three times in sequential perfect or imperfect forms: na.ta.Ti ("I will give"), nat.Nah ("she will give"), and yi.Ten ("he will give"). This repetition creates a structural echo across the three clauses — rain, land, and tree each "give" something in turn. The grammatical gender of each verb form matches its subject: first person for the divine speaker giving rain, feminine for 'A.retz ("land") giving ye.vu.La ("produce", H2981), and masculine for 'Etz ("tree") giving pir.Yo ("its fruit").

The phrase gish.mei.khem be.'i.Tam ("your rains in their time") uses the plural construct form gish.mei ("rains of", H1653), which some translations render as singular "rain" or "rains," while the Hebrew plural form itself may indicate multiple rainfalls or rain events occurring at their proper appointed times, indicated by 'i.Tam ("their time", H6256 + H9028).

Differences between versions

The LXX renders gish.mei.khem ("your rains") with the singular τὸν ὑετὸν ("the rain"), differing from the Hebrew plural construct form. The Vulgate (VULCLEM) as provided omits the clause about rain and the first-person verb na.ta.Ti entirely, beginning instead with "et terra gignet germen suum" ("and the earth will produce its growth"), corresponding only to the second and third clauses of the Hebrew.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.