You are to pay a ransom for the 273 first-born Israelis who exceed the census number of the descendants of Levi,

"Right"," Gideon responded. "Sir, how will I deliver Israel? Look my family is the weakest in Manasseh, and I'm the youngest in my father's household."

"Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?'

Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You've set his limit and he cannot exceed it.

when he set a boundary for the sea so the waters would not exceed his limits, when he marked out the foundations of the earth.

They will be terrified; pain and anguish will seize them; they'll writhe like a woman in labor. They'll look aghast at one another; and their faces will be ablaze with fear.