'Face of the Earth' in the Bible

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

So the Lord said, "I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth -- everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them."

and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.