The Hebrew word referring to the retreat of the Flood waters in Genesis 8:3—translated “continually” in the King James Version—may be more literally translated by the phrase “in going and coming.” This supports our belief that the main force of the Flood was tides (Gen. 7:17), rather than rain falling from the sky (although there was plenty of that as well). It must be understood that ocean tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon. Tides cause both the rise and the