Genesis

“He took him outside and said, ‘Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘So shall your offspring be.’”

Genesis 15:5 (NIV)

THE QUESTION

God took a man outside, told him to look up and count the stars, and promised his descendants would be just as many. Which book tells this story?

A) Exodus

B) Genesis ✓

C) Numbers

D) Deuteronomy

A closer look

Abram, later called Abraham, was old and still had no children (Genesis 15:3). So God took him outside, told him to count the stars if he could, and promised his family would be just as many (Genesis 15:5).

“Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness” (Genesis 15:6). Years later Isaac was born, and Paul points back to this promise when he writes about faith (Romans 4:18).

If you thought of Deuteronomy, that’s understandable. Moses later told Israel that God had made them “as numerous as the stars in the sky” (Deuteronomy 1:10).

The same stars that made David marvel at God’s care once carried a promise to an old man still waiting for a child. God hadn’t forgotten him, and He hasn’t forgotten you (Psalm 8:3-4).

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