TESTAMENT OF JUDAH - Copy of the words of Judah, what he spoke to his sons before he died.
2Hear the words of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah.
3I was bold in the field and at home, for the angel of strength was with me.
4At sixteen I killed a lion and snatched a kid from its mouth.
5When I was twenty I defeated all the kings of Canaan in battle.
6I seized bulls by the horns and killed them, and no beast resisted me.
7But I loved wine too much, and that was my ruin.
8For wine perverts the mind and turns one from the truth.
9Through wine I was seduced and lay with a Canaanite woman.
10Therefore, my sons, avoid drunkenness, for in it is all evil.