The third commentary...

The third commentary, which has been cited for the verse, and seems preferable for certain considerations, says that the meaning of 'splitting the earth' is 'the act of breaking the stone into pieces on the splitting of the earth.' Explanation: At first the surface of the earth was covered with a mass of stone.

Heavy rains fell, continuously, and cleft the stone asunder and spread its little parts onto the low lands and, thus, a mass of agricultural soil was formed, some of which is now carried to the seas by floods. But the new soil, produced by the succeeding rain and snow was…