When this happens, one plate moves past the other, suddenly causing the Earth's surface to split.

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You shall not make yourselves unclean through any swarming thing that moves upon the earth. For I the Lord am He who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God: you shall be holy, for I am holy.

你们也不可在地上的爬物,污秽自己，我是把你们从埃及地领出来的耶和华,要作你们的神，所以你们要圣洁，因为我是圣洁的。

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