1. Thus יהוה said to me, “Go and get yourself a linen girdle, and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water.”
2. So I bought a girdle according to the word of יהוה, and put it on my loins.
3. And the word of יהוה came to me the second time, saying,
4. “Take the girdle that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole in the rock.”
5. And I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as יהוה commanded me.