1. The Lord told me to go and buy myself some linen shorts and to put them on; but he told me not to put them in water.
2. So I bought them and put them on.
3. Then the Lord spoke to me again, and said,
4. “Go to the River Euphrates and hide the shorts in a hole in the rocks.”
5. So I went and hid them near the Euphrates.
6. Some time later the Lord told me to go back to the Euphrates and get the shorts.
7. So I went back, and when I found the place where I had hidden them, I saw that they were ruined and were no longer any good.
8. Then the Lord spoke to me again. He said,