'Forefathers' in the Bible

He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers.

So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

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