Genesis 7 Footnotes

7:20 Where did all that water go? The story is internally consistent with its claims of God’s special intervention in the flood. The Lord “caused a wind to pass over the earth” (8:1). In a similar way, divinely induced wind divided the sea and dried the riverbed to allow the exodus (Ex 14:21). God accomplished the drying of the earth by a unique means in the times of Noah and Moses. Some prefer the explanation that the flood was not global but local, which relieves the question about where all the water went.