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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)
- Improvement Era (January 1968): "Often the funerary texts contained passages from the 'Book of the Dead,' a book that was to assist in the safe passage of the dead person into the spirit world" (view source)
- Question: Couldn't the "Egyptian Alphabet" have referred to the "reformed Egyptian" characters on the Anthon transcript? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates? (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)
- Question: Did Joseph attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates using the "gift and power of God?" (view source)
- Question: Does anyone assert that the GAEL was an actual correlation between Egyptian and the explanations offered? (view source)
- Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth? (view source)
- Question: How did Joseph use his seer stones as a youth? (view source)
- Question: How exactly did Joseph Smith translate the gold plates? (view source)
- Question: If the gold plates were originally in Mesoamerica, how did they get to New York? (view source)
- Question: What are the Kinderhook Plates? (view source)
- Question: What are the Nephite interpreters? (view source)
- Question: What does Joseph's attempt to translate the Kinderhook Plates tell us about his "gift of translation?" (view source)
- Question: When was the "Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language" produced? (view source)
- Question: Why does ''History of the Church'' say that Joseph Smith said "I have translated a portion of them..."? (view source)
- Question: Why does the non-Mormon eyewitness say that the "Egyptian Alphabet" was "from the plates which the Book of Mormon was translated"? (view source)
- Question: Why is the statement in ''History of the Church'' written as if Joseph said it? (view source)
- Question: Why is the statement of William Clayton regarding the Kinderhook Plates in ''History of the Church'' written as if Joseph Smith himself said it? (view source)
- 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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