In a 2007 interview, BYU professor Daniel Peterson talks about how Joseph Smith mainly used his seer stone in a hat to translate the Gold Plates into the Book of Mormon.
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BYU Professor Daniel Peterson-
"We know that Joseph didn’t translate the way that a scholar would translate. He didn’t know Egyptian. There were a couple of means that were prepared for this. One was he used an instrument that was found with the plates that was called the Urim and Thummim. This is a kind of a divinatory device that goes back into Old Testament times. Actually most of the translation was done using something called a seer stone. He would put the stone in the bottom of a hat, presumably to exclude surrounding light. And then he would put his face into the hat, it’s a kind of a strange image for us (PBS Series: "The Mormons", Act One: Revelation, 2007)

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