²³ no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

⁸ Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

¹⁵ And wine -- it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread -- the heart of man it supporteth.

³ aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

⁷ for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

³ not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

¹⁸ and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

⁴ Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

⁵ Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

⁶ Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,

⁷ He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.

⁴ because every creature of God `is' good, and nothing `is' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

²¹ And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court.

⁹ `Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not -- a statute age-during to your generations;

¹⁰ so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;

¹¹ and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'