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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: "As Joseph grew to understand his prophetic calling, he learned that he could use this stone for the higher purpose of translating scripture" (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)
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- 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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- Question: Why would Joseph Smith use the same stone for translating the Book of Mormon that he used for "money digging"? (view source)
- 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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