³ I ^(A)did not eat any ^[a]tasty food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all until the entire three weeks were completed. ⁴ On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, while I was by the bank of the great ^(B)river, that is, the ^[b]Tigris, ⁵ I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a certain man ^(C)dressed in linen, whose waist was ^(D)girded with a belt of pure ^(E)gold of Uphaz.