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- Ensign (Jan. 2013): "He...referred to it using an Old Testament term, Urim and Thummim...He also sometimes applied the term to other stones he possessed" (view source)
- Gospel Topics: "Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term 'Urim and Thummim' to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters" (view source)
- Joseph Smith/Seer stones/"Rock in hat" used for Book of Mormon translation (view source)
- Peterson (2005): The plates "are an indigestible lump in the throats of people...who contend that there were no Nephites but that Joseph Smith was nonetheless an inspired prophet" (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use his own seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use the Nephite interpreters to translate? Or did he use his own seer stone? (view source)
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- W.W. Phelps (1833): "through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)" (view source)
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