THE PRIESTLY ORACLE — an object or pair of objects kept in the high priest's breastpiece, used to put a question to God and get an answer. What they physically were is not described anywhere and is not recoverable; the name looks like the plural of 'light'. ⭐ Searched across the archived text the word stands in six verses, and they make a complete arc: instituted in Exodus 28:30 and placed on Aaron in Leviticus 8:8; handed to Joshua at Numbers 27:21 as the channel through which he must now inquire, since he does not have Moses' direct access; failing Saul at 1 Samuel 28:6, where Jehovah answers him 'neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets' and he goes to a medium instead; and gone by the return, when Ezra 2:63 and Nehemiah 7:65 defer a priestly question until a priest should arise with Urim and Thummim. ⚠ A seventh consonantal hit, Psalm 136:7, is the ordinary plural of 'light' in 'him that made great lights' — noise, and worth reading rather than counting. → first discussed at Num 27:21