'Fathers' in the Bible

and then he shall leave you, he and his children with him, and shall go back to his own family and return to the property of his fathers.

Those of you who are left will rot away because of their wickedness in the lands of your enemies; also because of the wickedness of their forefathers they will rot away like them.

‘If they confess their wickedness and the wickedness of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they have committed against Me—and also in their acting with hostility toward Me—