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8 Witnesses published statement in 1830 claiming that Joseph showed them the plates.
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Joseph Knight recalls Joseph using "glass" to see Emma Hale.
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Joseph Knight recalls Joseph describing the plates and Urim & Thummim.
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Joseph Knight said that Joseph used the Urim and Thummim in a hat to translate the plates.
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Theodore Farley in 1940 recounts Martin Harris affirming testimony in the Book of Mormon having been translated by the gift and power of God.
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Kenneth W. Godfrey, in an article published in the Ensign, notes that scripture indicates the translation involved "the Urim and Thummim or a seerstone."
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D. Michael Quinn said that seer stones common for treasure digging in Palmyra in Joseph's time.