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1 The LORD said to me, "Go and buy a linen belt. Put it around your waist. But do not let it get wet."
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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, just as the LORD had told me to do. And I put it around my waist.
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So I bought a belt, as the LORD directed, and put it around my waist.
3 Then another message came to me from the Lord. He said,
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Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:
4 "Take off the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist. Go to Perath. Hide the belt there in a crack in the rocks."
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“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. I did just as the LORD had told me to do.
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So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD told me.
6 Many days later the LORD spoke to me again. He told me, "Go to Perath. Get the belt I told you to hide there."
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Many days later the LORD said to me, “Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.”
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