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Thus said the LORD to me, "Go and buy a linen waistcloth, and put it on your loins, and do not dip it in water."
2
So I bought a waistcloth according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
3
And the word of the LORD came to me a second time,
4
"Take the waistcloth which you have bought, which is upon your loins, and arise, go to the Euphra'tes, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock."
5
So I went, and hid it by the Euphra'tes, as the LORD commanded me.
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