'Fathers' in the Bible

then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

"'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,