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The legal high priest delivered up his urim and thummim, his breast-plate, his robes, and his incense: and Christ stood forth as the great high priest of all succeeding generations.— The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason
Each stone had some hieroglyphic scratched upon its surface You have heard, Mr. Jackson, of the urim and thummim I had heard the term, but my idea of its meaning was exceedingly vague The urim and thummim was a name given to the jewelled plate which lay upon the breast of the high priest of the Jews.— Tales of Terror and Mystery
Tomorrow the loose settings shall be tightened by an expert goldsmith, and so passes the greatest danger to which, since the destruction of the Temple, the urim and thummim has been exposed.— Tales of Terror and Mystery
That is, the vestment of the high priest, with the urim and thummim, by which the Lord gave his oracle.— The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision
1706] The priest was the official diviner, employing the urim and thummim.— Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

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