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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.”
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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, as the LORD directed, and 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 the word of the LORD came to me a second time:
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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.”
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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, as the LORD told me.
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So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD told me.
6 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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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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Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide.