1. This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt. Then put it around your waist. Don’t let the belt get wet.”
2. So I bought a linen belt, just as the Lord told me. And I put it around my waist.
3. Then the Lord spoke his word to me a second time:
4. “Take the belt you bought and are wearing. Go to Perath. Hide the belt there in a crack in the rocks.”
5. So I went to Perath and hid the belt there, just as the Lord told me.
6. Many days later the Lord said to me, “Now go to Perath. Get the belt that I told you to hide there.”