1. This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
2. So I bought a belt, as the Lord directed, and put it around my waist.
3. Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time:
4. “Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.”
5. So I went and hid it at Perath, as the Lord told me.