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Word: thummim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moroni appeared to Joe. Introducing himself as one from the lost tribes who had emigrated to South America 600 years before Christ, Moroni told Joe the location of a set of golden plates in a cave near Palmyra. With them would be found a code key, or Urim and Thummim. Four years later, Joe, a giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted God's revelation that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polygamist Epic | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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