1Observe, therefore, my children, the (right) limit in wine; for there are in it four evil spirits—of lust, of hot desire, of profligacy, of filthy lucre.
2If ye drink wine in gladness, be ye modest with the fear of Elohim (God). For if in (your) gladness the fear of Elohim (God) departeth, then drunkenness ariseth and shamelessness stealeth in.
3But if you would live soberly do not touch wine at all, lest ye sin in words of outrage, and in fightings and slanders, and transgressions of the commandments of Elohim (God), and ye perish before your time.
4Moreover, wine revealeth the mysteries of Elohim (God) and men, even as I also revealed the commandments of Elohim (God) and the mysteries of Jacob my father to the Canaanitish woman Bathshua, which Elohim (God) bade me not to reveal.
5And wine is a cause both of war and confusion.