The Bible tells us that the Jewish high priest had two mysterious objects known as the Urim and Thummin to help him receive messages from God. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what they were, how they worked, and what we know about them.AI-powered
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What Were the Urim and Thummim? (Messages from God?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Urmintham and Humim Aren't Words We Have in English.
The endings of the words urim and thumim are clear. Urmintham aren't words we have in english. Do we know what these words meant in hebrew? Some scholars think they were used by other people in the ancient ear east, and the hebrews just adopted the words for them.
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