 In the Sifre, however, these attributes are not called "middot", which may mean "quality" as well as "rule" and "measure", but "derakhim" (ways), since they are the ways of God which Moses prayed to know and which God proclaimed to him.The thirteen attributes are alluded to a number of other times in the Bible.Verses where God is described using all or some of the attributes include , , , , , , , , and .