Verse 4

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In plain words

Whatever forms arise in all wombs, son of Kunti, the great brahman, Prakṛti, is their womb and I am the seed-giving Father.

Word for word

In all wombs, O son of Kuntī, which forms arise, of them the great brahman [is] the womb, I [am] the seed-giving father.

Sri Satchitananda Sai
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Bhagavadgītābhāṣyam· bhāṣya

देवपितृमनुष्यपशुमृगादिसर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय, मूर्तयः देहसंस्थानलक्षणाः मूर्छिताङ्गावयवाः मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः, तासां मूर्तीनां ब्रह्म महत् सर्वावस्थं योनिः कारणम् अहम् ईश्वरः बीजप्रदः गर्भाधानस्य कर्ता पिता ॥ ४ ॥

In plain words

Take every womb there is, Kaunteya — gods, ancestors, human beings, cattle, the creatures of the forest, all the rest of them. Whatever forms come out of those wombs, forms shaped as bodies, limbs and parts thickened into something you can touch — for every one of those forms the great brahman, present through all states, is the womb, the cause. And I, the Lord, am the one who places the seed. I do the conceiving. I am the father.

Close to the Sanskrit

In all the wombs — of gods, ancestors, humans, cattle, wild animals and the rest — O son of Kuntī, whatever forms come into being, forms marked by the configuration of a body, forms whose limbs and parts have hardened into shape: of those forms, the great brahman, present in all states, is the womb, the cause; and I, the Lord, am the giver of the seed, the performer of the impregnation, the father.