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Thus the Lord said to me: "Go and get yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water."
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So I got a sash according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.
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And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying,
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"Take the sash that you acquired, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole in the rock."
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So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
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Now it came to pass after many days that the Lord said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the sash which I commanded you to hide there."
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Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the sash from the place where I had hidden it; and there was the sash, ruined. It was profitable for nothing.