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It was vacuumed off and taken back to where it came from to begin with.
● Gen 7:11b . . on this day, all the springs of the great deep were split, and
the windows of the heavens opened up.
The word for "deep" is from tehowm (teh-home') which indicates an abyss
(as a surging mass of water) especially the deep (the main sea or the
subterranean water-supply). Tehowm first shows up in the in Bible at Gen 1:1-2.
The difference is that this deep is the great deep. The word for "great" is
from rab (rab) which means abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank,
quality), so that this particular deep could be thought of as bottomless; viz:
an abysmal source of water beyond human imagination.
The atmosphere alone holds about 2,900 cubic miles of water at any given
time; with the balance of Earth's 340 million cubic miles of water stored in
oceans, rivers, lakes, ice caps, glaciers, permafrost, and the ground.
Relatively little ground water is stored in subterranean voids. Most of it is
soaked in tiny pores and cracks in soil and rocks.
Almost all ground water resides within five to ten miles of the surface. Water
below that depth is chemically bound in the rocks and minerals and not
readily accessible; but can be released as a result of geologic processes such
as volcanism. But for the Flood, water above and beyond the earth's
indigenous sources was necessary.
There's an abundance of water out in the void. In an article I found on
the internet dated July 22, 2011; astronomers have discovered the largest
and oldest mass of water ever detected in the universe-- a gigantic cloud
harboring 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth's oceans combined.
Well; I'm pretty sure that's a sufficient quantity of water to inundate the
earth to a depth required by the Flood.
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