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	Urim And Thummim - LoveToKnow 1911
		Thus the association of the Urim and Thummim with the ephod, which appears in the oldest narratives, is retained in the Priestly Code (P).
		Perhaps the conjecture least open to objection is that which regards the terms Urim and Thummim as the names of two lots 2 (perhaps actually written on them) of opposite import.
		For modern discussions, see the articles "Urim and Thummim" in the Bible dictionaries; the relevant sections in the treatises on archaeology; and W. Muss-Arnolt, The Urim and Thummim (reprinted from the American Journal of Semitic Languages, July 1900).
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	Urim and Thummim - Crystalinks
		Urim and Thummim, generally translated as "lights and perfections" or "revelation and truth" were a scrying medium or divination process used by ancient Hebrews (usually Israelites) in revealing the will of God on a contested point of view or other problem.
		According to the Hebrew Bible, stones used for "an" Urim and Thummim were kept in the breastplate of Aaron, the brother of Moses.
		The last agreed-upon reference to Urim and Thummim in the Bible is in Ezra and Nehemiah when, as the Temple and its worship practices are being restored, those who cannot prove their lineage as priests are commanded to wait for a priest with Urim and Thummim to identify them.
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	What were the Urim and Thummim?
		Others propose that the Urim and Thummim were kept in a pouch and were engraved with symbols identifying yes / no and true / false.
		It is unclear whether the Urim and Thummim were on, by, or in the High Priest's ephod.
		The Urim and Thummim are next mentioned in Moses' dying blessing upon Levi (Deuteronomy 33:8).
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	Urim - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Urim and Thummim (Hebrew: אוּרִים וְתּוּמִים, Urim vəTummim '; Arabic: اوريم وتميم, Ūrīm waṮummīm) — typically translated as lights and perfections or revelation and...
		urim is an online listing of those who testify to the truth of the everlasting torah and two house testimony of y’shua our messiah as written in the bible and the book of mormon.
		Urim and Thummim, generally translated as "lights and perfections" or "revelation and truth" were a scrying medium or divination process used by ancient Hebrews (usually Israelites...
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	Urim and Thummim
		According to the Bible, stones used for "a" Urim and Thummim were kept in the breastplate of Aaron, the brother of Moses.
		The last agreed-upon reference to Urim and Thummim in the Bible is in Ezra and Nehemiah when, as the Temple and its worship practices are being restored, those who cannot prove their lineage as priests are commanded to wait for a priest with Urim and Thummim to identify them.
		The LDS Bible Dictionary defines a Urim and Thummim as "an instrument prepared of God to assist man in obtaining revelation from the Lord and in translating languages." Presumably, in Mormon belief, no qualification other than God's selection and ordination is necessary for an item to become a Urim and Thummim.
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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - URIM AND THUMMIM.
		The Urim and Thummim are implied, also, whereever in the earlier history of Israel mention is made of asking counsel of the Lord by means of the ephod (Josh.
		8, the Urim and Thummim rested within the breastplate, that is, on the breast of the high priest; in the Babylonian account the Tablets of Destiny rested on the breast of their possessor.
		Tradition is unanimous in stating that the use of the Urim and Thummim ceased with the destruction of the First Temple, or, in other words, with the death of the Older Prophets; and they were among the five things lacking in the Second Temple (Soṭah ix.
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	Urim and Thummim - MormonWiki - Mormonism - the LDS Church, Beliefs & Religion
		Urim and Thummim, in Mormonism, refers to instruments used in receiving revelation and translating unknown tongues.
		It is unknown whether the one used by Abraham was passed down to Aaron, but the Urim and Thummim of the Book of Mormon is the same one buried with The Golden Plates, which Joseph Smith used for translation.
		That same revelation describes the earth as becoming an Urim and Thummim to all those who live upon it when it is sanctified after the Last Judgment, and a white stone (Revelation 2:17) will be given to the faithful which will function as an Urim and Thummim to each individual that receives it.
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	Urim and Thummim - Encyclopedia.com
		Urim and Thummim, in the Bible, name of sacred instruments used for casting lots.
		The Old Testament tells of the Urim and the Thummim, some strange yes-no device that, through process of elimination, could be used either to select leaders or identify...
		In a discussion of the working of the Urim and Thummim on the High Priest's breastplate, which were supposed to answer any question with computer-like accuracy, flashing...
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	Urim and Thummim
		The Rabbis understood the Urim and Thummim to be part of the Breastplate of the High Priest and that its oracular function came from light shining through the twelve gemstones mounted on the breastplate.
		The answers given by the Urim and Thummim recorded in the Bible were full sentences, suggesting either that the device was merely an aid to oracular prophecy, or that the Rabbis were correct in their claim that it spelled out messages from the letters on the breastplate.
		Mention of the Urim and Thummim ceases early in the history of Israel, indicating that it was no longer in use at the rise of classical prophecy (8th Century BCE).
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	Urim and Thummim — FactMonster.com
		When any question was brought to the high priest to be decided by “Urim,” the priest put his hand into the “pouch” and drew out one of the stones, and according to the stone drawn out the question was decided.
		Urim and Thummim - Urim and Thummim Urim and Thummim, in the Bible, name of sacred instruments used for casting lots.
		Urim and Thummim - Urim and Thummim consisted of three stones, which were deposited in the double lining of the high...
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	Eureka -- Vol 2 -- Chap 7 -- 6. The Apocalyptic Urim and Thummim
		Having prepared the foursquare texture, Moses was commanded to put into it the Urim and the Thummim; that is, the twelve precious stones: not that the stones abstractly were the Urim and the Thummim, but were indispensable to its manifestation.
		These were styled, urim, lights; and the twelve stones themselves, thummim, fulnesses, that is, of number and measure -- fulness of number, and fulness of measure; or 144,000 and 144 cubits and furlongs; because these are the perfections, or square of 12.
		From this scriptural identification of the Urim and Thummim with the Expected Priest after the Order of Melchisedec, we have one of a multitude of instances in which, as Paul teaches, "the Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes" the gospel of the kingdom.
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	Science Fair Projects - Urim and Thummim
		Because the words Urim and Thummim are plural and in most cases do not connotate an object, the device or process could be referred to as Urim and Thummim rather than "the" Urim and Thummim (Hebrew האורים והתמים;, Tiberian Hebrew hāʾÛrîm wəhatTummîm, Standard Hebrew האורים והתומים; haʾUrim vəhaTummim; Arabic الاوريم والتميم; al-Ūrīm waʾaṯ-Ṯummīm).
		According to teachings of Judaism, a small parchment with God's holy name, the Tetragramaton, inscribed on it was slipped into an opening under the Urim and Thummim on the high priest's breast plate, which caused the breastplate to "glow" and thereby "transmit messages" from God to the Children of Israel.
		A treasure hunt for "the" Urim and Thummim (as a unique artifact) forms the central plot of the John Bellairs novel The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost.
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	Urim and Thummim — Infoplease.com
		When any question was brought to the high priest to be decided by “Urim,” the priest put his hand into the “pouch” and drew out one of the stones, and according to the stone drawn out the question was decided.
		Urim and Thummim - Urim and Thummim Urim and Thummim, in the Bible, name of sacred instruments used for casting lots.
		Urim and Thummim - Urim and Thummim consisted of three stones, which were deposited in the double lining of the high...
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	Crosswalk - Devotionals, Christian Music, Family, Christian News, Forums & more
		The terms "Urim" and "Thummim" have traditionally been understood as "light(s)" and "perfection(s)" or as "perfect light." The Urim and Thummim were a means of revelation entrusted to the high priest.
		Since the Urim and Thummim, in whatever way they functioned, were a physical means of revelation, it appears that God was taking his people away from the easy certainty inherent in a mechanical means of revelation to the more consistent use of prophecy and the Word alone.
		It could be theorized that a perfect light that miraculously shone from the gem(s) constituting the Urim and Thummim (which belonged to God, Deut 33:8) gave the needed authentication to the actual answer spoken by the high priest under divine inspiration.
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	The Urim and Thummim: A New Theory
		By the Urim, therefore, or splendours, I doubt not that the light of doctrine, wherewith the true Priest illuminates all believers, was represented...On the other hand, the Thummim, which signifies perfections, was a symbol of the prefect and entire purity which is only to be sought in Christ.
		Although, as we shall later see, that the symbolic significance of the Urim and Thummim are fundamental to the argument I wish to present, the fact remains that the biblical evidence is more in favour of understanding the Urim and Thummim as having a physical identity, not a purely symbolic one.
		One criticism I have of the majority of scholarship on the Urim and Thummim is that in all its elaborate attempts to relate the Urim and Thummim to a particular ancient Near Eastern analogue, virtually no serious consideration is given to later analogues.
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	The Urim and the Thummim and the Writing on the Wall
		According to the history of the Urim and Thummim, they weren't in use after the Babylonians sacked the Temple of Solomon and here we are in Babylon and all of the precious artefacts are brought out.
		In spite of a hunger strike, the Urim and the Thummim stayed behind -- the prophets Ezra and Nehemia, in their accounts of the exiles' return, cited a declaration against the consumption of holy food until a priest stood before them with the Urim and Thummim (Ezra 2:63; Nehemia 7:65).
		The Urim and the Thummim were not used after the Second Temple was dedicated in 516 B.C. because they had been stolen, along with the Ark and other items, and nobody knew how to make another set.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Urim and Thummim
		Urim is derived from the Hebrew for "light", or "to give light", and Thummim from "completeness", "perfection", or "innocence".
		Urim served to bring to light the guilt of the accused person, and Thummim to establish his innocence.
		Be that as it may, the relatively few mentions of Urim and Thummim in the Old Testament leave the precise
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	Inquiring of the Lord (Urim and Thummim) - Christian Articles Archive
		This ephod was presumably part of the high priest's garments, to which was attached a breastplate pouch containing the Urim and the Thummim (Exodus 28, especially vs. 30; cf.
		Other speculations regarding Urim and Thummim are discussed by Herbert Wolf, "'or," in TWBOT, I, 26 (a personal revelation to the mind of the priest), and Edward Robertson, op.
		If Urim and Thummim were two marked stones which were cast, a "yes" might be both up, a "no" both down, and "no answer" one up and one down.
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	Teraphim and the Urim and Thummim - Maxwell Institute Insights
		Teraphim and the Urim and Thummim - Maxwell Institute Insights
		In a recent study, Cornelius Van Dam argues that in ancient Israel the teraphim were a substitute for the Urim and Thummim and may have functioned in a similar way.
		Cornelius Van Dam, The Urim and Thummim: A Study of an Old Testa-ment Means of Revelation (1997), 228–29.
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	Urim and Thummim - Smith’s Bible Dictionary - Bible Dictionary
		In it are to be set four rows of precious stones, each stone with the name of a tribe of Israel engraved on it, that Aaron "may bear them on his heart." Then comes a further order.
		In side the breastplate, as the tables of the covenant were placed inside the ark, (Exodus 25:16; 28:30) are to be placed "the Urim and the Thummim," the light and the perfection; and they too are to be on Aaron's heart when he goes in before the Lord.
		(Numbers 27:21) In the blessings of Moses they appear as the crowning glory of the tribe of Levi: "thy Thummim and thy Urim are with thy Holy One." (33:8,9) In what way the Urim and Thummim were consulted is quite uncertain.
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	JULIO (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Urim and Thummim are of course mentioned in the Bible as instruments that were used in conjunction with communications with God (Ex.
		President Joseph Fielding Smith, with reference to the seer stone and the Urim and Thummim, has written: "We have been taught since the days of the Prophet that the Urim and Thummim were returned with the plates to the angel.
		The Urim and Thummim so spoken of, however, was the seer stone which was in the possession of the Prophet Joseph Smith in early days.
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	Urim and Thummim (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The most recent reference to a Urim and Thummim in the Bible (depending on translation) is the replacement of Judas as an Apostle by St. Mathias in the Acts of the New Testament.
		Mormons claim that Joseph Smith, Jr had a urim and thummim which he used at first to translate the Book of Mormon from gold plates until he had learned the language on the plates well enough to translate them alone by revelation.
		Masonic Legend (taught during the 13, 14 and 21 degrees ceremonies of Masonry) and Kabbalistic tradition states that the Urim and Thummin was part of the recovered artifacts taken from Solomon's Temple after Hiram Abif was murdered while protecting the temple treasury.
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	Mosiah 8:5 the plates which contained the record of his people
		The interpreters are the Urim and Thummim that the Lord had given to the brother of Jared (Ether 3:23; 4:5).
		This same Urim and Thummim spoken of in Mosiah 8:13 is the Urim and Thummim that was buried with the gold plates.
		This Urim and Thummim was taken with the plates by Moroni after Joseph was done translating.
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		CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Urim and ThummimThe sacred lot by means of which the ancient Hebrews were wont to seek manifestations of the Divine...
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	Our Holy Name 888
		The mathmatics of our Holy Urim is one of the greatest gifts we give to ourselves in the evolution of our souls on this planet.
		Our Holy Urims are, in essence, names of our Creator who is utterly beyond all comprehension, therefore these Holy Urims cannot be understood in earthly language.
		Urims cannot be understood by the ego mind -- only by the feeling we receive when we speak or meditate on them.
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	Urim and Thummim - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		After the days of David, prophecy was in the ascendancy, and, accordingly, we find no clear record of the use of the Urim and Thummim in the days of the later kings (compare, however, Hosea 3:4; Ecclesiasticus 33:3).
		Both Josephus and the Talmud identify the Urim and Thummim with the stones of the breastplate.
		Another very old view is that the Urim and Thummim consisted of a writing containing the Ineffable Name (Pseudo-Jonathan on Exodus 28:20; compare Rashi and Nachmanides at the place).
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