המים גברו מאד מאד על־הארץ ויכסו כל־ההרים הגבהים אשׁר־תחת כל־השׁמים׃
Here above in bold it says "upon the earth," al haeretz. The Bible says here the waters prevailed upon the uearth under all the heavens, not some of the heavens. The word heaven, or hashamaim, is also used for the sky....no remission of working that the entire earth was flooded.
Having read the OT and NT in Hebrew there are times I feel I must post on the translations. It seems most important when individuals insist on putting themselves superior to others in such endeavor. I am not. I put fodrward what is in the Word as understood bby the Holy Spirit first and formost. My personal linguistic studies have no bearing on the level of my salvation nor does it on others. None of the apostles were learned yet they know more than any doctorate of what man has deemed theology. What a title! Theology, the study of theos, the study of our Maker...that is a joke.
We allo must endeavor to understand what He has freely given usn never to attempt to say we know Him so well as to write on "theology," if it were not so sad, I would laugh indeed.