1. The Lord said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth; wear it on your loins, but do not put it in water.
2. I bought the loincloth, as the Lord commanded, and put it on.
3. A second time the word of the Lord came to me thus:
4. Take the loincloth which you bought and are wearing, and go at once to the Perath; hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
5. Obedient to the Lord’s command, I went to the Perath and buried the loincloth.
6. After a long time, the Lord said to me: Go now to the Perath and fetch the loincloth which I told you to hide there.
7. So I went to the Perath, looked for the loincloth and took it from the place I had hidden it. But it was rotted, good for nothing!