9. These are the generations of Noah; Noah was a righteous man; in his generation he was perfect, and Noah walked with God. 10. And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

18. And the sons of Noah, who went out of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19. These are the three sons of Noah; and from them was the whole earth peopled. 20. And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard; 21. And he drank of the wine, and became drunk; and he lay uncovered inside his tent. 22. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. 24. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. 25. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers. 26. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his slave. 27. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall live in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his slave.

(10) אל תשת, “do not drink!” Even though in according to Jewish custom other mourners are given wine to drink, as is written in Proverbs 31,6: תנו שכר לאובד ויין למרי נפש, “give liquor to those who are about to perish, and wine to those who are embittered,” you and your sons must not drink it is as you are not used to it as you do not observe the customs of mourners. Furthermore, you are prohibited from imbibing on pain of death when you are on duty in the holy precincts to the Temple. It is simply not befitting that a drunk person should perform sacrificial service.

Rabbi Elai said: In three matters a person's [true character] is asertained; in his cup; in his pocket; and in his anger. And some say: his laughter.

(14) [God] You make the grass grow for the cattle, and herbage for man's labor that he may get food out of the earth - wine that cheers the hearts of men to make the face shine like oil, and bread that sustains man's life.

(1) Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars; (2) She hath prepared her meat, she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

(12) And the trees said unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us. (13) And the vine said unto them: Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to hold sway over the trees?

(1) And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: (2) Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When either man or woman shall clearly utter a vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to consecrate himself unto the LORD, (3) he shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. (4) All the days of his Naziriteship shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the pressed grapes even to the grapestone. (5) All the days of his vow of Naziriteship there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, in which he consecrateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. (6) All the days that he consecrateth himself unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body. (7) He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his consecration unto God is upon his head. (8) All the days of his Naziriteship he is holy unto the LORD.

4.It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, Where is strong drink; 5. Lest he drink, and forget the decree, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. 6. Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to those whose hearts are heavy. 7. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. 8. Open your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all who are appointed to destruction. 9. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and the needy.

9. Who cries woe? Who cries alas? who has quarrels? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30. Those who tarry long over the wine; those who go to seek mixed wine. 31. Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. 32. At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper. 33. Your eyes shall behold strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse words.

Rav said to Hiyya, his son, Do not get into the habit of drinking medications, do not leap over a ditch, do not pull out a tooth, do not provoke a snake, and do not provoke a gentile.