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THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
EXODUS
CHAPTER 25
  7 aOnyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the bbreastplate.

Footnotes
7a
Ex. 28: 9 (6-14).
  9 And thou shalt take two aonyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Moses 3: 12.
  12 And the gold of that land was good, and there was bdellium and the aonyx stone.
b
Mosiah 8: 10 (10-11).
  10 And behold, also, they have brought abreastplates, which are large, and they are of bbrass and of copper, and are perfectly sound.
D&C 17: 1.
  1 Behold, I say unto you, that you must rely upon my word, which if you do with full purpose of heart, you shall have a aview of the bplates, and also of the cbreastplate, the dsword of Laban, the eUrim and Thummim, which were given to the fbrother of Jared upon the mount, when he talked with the Lord gface to face, and the hmiraculous directors which were given to Lehi while in the wilderness, on the borders of the iRed Sea.
JS-H 1: 35.
  35 Also, that there were two stones in silver bows—and these stones, fastened to a abreastplate, constituted what is called the bUrim and Thummim—deposited with the plates; and the possession and use of these stones were what constituted “cseers” in ancient or former times; and that God had prepared them for the purpose of translating the book.