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What Were the Urim and Thummim? (Messages from God?)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Orim and the Humim Are Not a Lot, but Lotsad

There aren't any clear cases where the hebrew terminology used for lot s is applied to the urimen tumim. They are not clearly described functioning like lots elsewhere. Some of the answers give way more information than scholars expect to come from lots that are designed to answer yes, no questions. Any of these theories couldex the higher bandwits messages they sometimes seem to receive. Know that the breastpiece had different kinds of precious stones on the outside of it, and these stones had the names of the tribes of israel written on them. So maybe something happened with the letters on the stones that the high priest could use to form words.

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