The above picture is a picture of the constellation Pleiades. It is a beautiful constellation of stars. And it's mentioned in the Bible. The book of Job may be in the middle of the Old Testament, but most scholars believe that it was the first book of the Old Testament that was authored. While Genesis may describe events chronologically earlier than Job, the book of Job was written first. Scholars date the writing of the book of Job to contemporary with the Patriarchal period, so probably 1600-1900 years before Christ.
In Job 38, God has monologue with Job, where God asks Job a series of question about the founding of the universe and lays out his omnipotence and his sovereignty. In verse 31, God gives us some information about the constellations Pleiades and Orion. He asks Job if he has the power to bind the cluster of Pleiades or loose the belt of Orion.
I submit the following verse as a piece of evidence of the Divine inspiration of Scripture.
Job 38:31
"Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the belt of Orion."
They have long been known to be a physically related group of stars rather than any chance alignment. The Reverend John Michell calculated in 1767 that the probability of a chance alignment of so many bright stars was only 1 in 500,000, and so correctly surmised that the Pleiades as well as Orion must be physically related. (An Inquiry into the probable Parallax, and Magnitude, of the Fixed Stars, from the Quantity of Light which they afford us, and the particular Circumstances of their Situation, Philosophical Transactions, v. 57, p. 234-264)
So all the way back before the time of Moses, Job was told by God and it was recorded that the star clusters of the Pleiades and Orion are arranged in a gravitational relationship, and this information was given some 3500 years before scientists discovered it to be true.




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