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==''The Friend'' (1974): "Joseph also used an egg-shaped, brown rock for translating called a seer stone"==
The official Church magazine for children, ''The Friend'':
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To help him with the translation, Joseph found with the gold plates ‘a curious instrument which the ancients called Urim and Thummim, which consisted of two transparent stones set in a rim of a bow fastened to a breastplate.’ Joseph also used an egg-shaped, brown rock for translating called a seer stone.<ref>[http://www.lds.org/friend/1974/09/a-peaceful-heart “A Peaceful Heart,”] ''Friend'' (September 1974) 7.</ref>
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