5. 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.”
7. So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.
8. Then the word of the Lord came to me: