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==Harris (1859): "The stones were white, like polished marble, with a few gray streaks. I never dared to look into them by placing them in the hat"==
Martin Harris:
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The two stones set in a bow of silver were about two inches in diameter, perfectly round, and about five-eighths of an inch thick at the centre; but not so thick at the edges where they came into the bow. They were joined by a round bar of silver, about three-eighths of an inch in diameter, and about four inches long, which, with the two stones, would make eight inches. The stones were white, like polished marble, with a few gray streaks. I never dared to look into them by placing them in the hat, because Moses said that “no man could see God and live,” and we could see anything we [Page 130]wished by looking into them; and I could not keep the desire to see God out of my mind. And beside, we had a command to let no man look into them, except by the command of God, lest he should “look aught and perish.”<ref>“Martin Harris Interview with Joel Tiffany, 1859,” in Early Mormon Documents, 2:305.</ref>
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