Genesis 6:17

I, even I, do bring. flood of waters upon the earth.

There has been much discussion of the question whether the flood was universal. The language used, at first glance, would seem to declare this, but the usage of the Hebrew will allow of its application to. flood that covered the then known world. It was undoubtedly universal, as far as the human race was concerned. This is shown by the fact that all races have traditions of the flood. As to the agencies employed, they were both geological and meteorological. "The windows of heaven were opened"--great rain storms; "and the fountains of the great deep were broken up"--the sea overflowed the land, caused by. depression of the land from earthquakes or other causes.

Everything that is in the earth shall die.

All the land animals and man. Murphy has made. calculation that renders it probable that the human race amounted to three or four millions.