Who are the characters called urim and thummim?”
Some accounts refer the seer stones as a pair of stones set in eye frames to resemble spectacles. Other accounts refer to a single seer stone by itself. Apparently the spectacle version was with the plates in the stone box. They were only used for translating just the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon and were then taken from Joseph by the angel along with the plates. The angel returned the plates but not the spectacle ‘Urim and Thummim’. After this, Joseph used the single seer stone that he had in his possession from before the Book of Mormon plates were retrieved. The term “Urim and Thummim” is mentioned seven times in the Old Testament (Exodus 28:30; Leviticus 8:8; Ezra 2:63; Nehemiah 7:65; Deuteronomy 33:8; Numbers 27:21; 1 Samuel 28:6 — in the latter two passages “Urim” is used alone.). The Urim and Thummim described in the Old Testament appears to more of a ‘Yes/No’ tool like a pair of dice rather than an actual translation device. We know of no historian or Biblical scholar
