"Son, listen to the Master’s commandments,
Listen to your heart."
<Water rule> Introduction, 1
Original text of St. Benedict's <Water Rule>
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Chapter 1 On the types of monks
Chapter 2 What kind of person should my fathers be?
Chapter 3 Listening to Brothers' Opinion
Chapter 4 What are the tools of good work
Chapter 8 Regarding the Holy Service to be Dedicated at Night
Chapter 9 How many psalms should be offered during the night hours
Chapter 10 How to Do <Night Prayer of Prayer> in Summer
Chapter 11 How to do <Night Prayer> on Sunday
Chapter 12 How to offer the magnificent <Morning Prayer>
Chapter 13 How to Dedicate the <Morning Prayer> on Weekdays
Chapter 14 How to Dedicate <Night Prayer> to the (Heavenly) Birthday of Saints
Chapter 15 When to Memorize <Alleluia>
CHAPTER 16 How to Dedicate the Work of God in the Day
Chapter 17: How many psalms should be memorized in each time scripture
Chapter 18: in what order to memorize the psalms
Chapter 19: On the attitude of memorizing the psalms
Chapter 20 Respect for Prayer
Chapter 21: On the Ten Persons of the Monastery
Chapter 22: How the monks should sleep
Chapter 23 On the excommunication of wrongdoing
Chapter 24: What should be the style of excommunication?
Chapter 25-Of Great Mistakes
Chapter 26: On those excommunicated and those who associate without permission
Chapter 27: How Dads Should Care for Excommunicated Brothers
Chapter 28: On those who have been punished many times and do not try to cure them
Chapter 29: Should Brothers Who Leave the Monastery Be Accepted Again?
Chapter 30-How to punish a young boy
Chapter 31: Who Should Be the Dangga of the Monastery?
Chapter 32-Of the utensils and objects of the monastery
Chapter 33: What can monks have in their own right?
Chapter 34: Should All People Receive The Equal Needs
Chapter 35-Of the weekly ministers in the kitchen
Chapter 36-Of the sick brothers
Chapter 37-Of the elderly and children
Chapter 38 Of Weekly Readers
Chapter 39-On the quantity of food
Chapter 40 on the quantity of beverages
CHAPTER 41 At what time should the brothers eat
No One Will Say After Chapter 42 <Prayer at the End>
Chapter 43-Of those who come late to God's work or meal
Chapter 44-How the excommunicated brothers will punish
Chapter 45-On the wrongdoers in the church
Chapter 46-Of those who have wronged in other things
Chapter 47-Of the announcement of the hour of God's work
Chapter 48-On Daily Manual Labor
Chapter 49-Concerning the observance of the Feast of Lent
Chapter 50 Of the brothers who are traveling or working far away from the church
Chapter 51-Of the brothers who go out not too far
Chapter 52-Of the Monastery Cathedral
Chapter 53-On Receiving Guests
Chapter 54-Of the monks who can receive letters or anything
Chapter 55-Of the Brothers' Clothing and Shoes
Chapter 56-Of Papas' Table
Chapter 57-Of the Engineers of the Monastery
Chapter 58 On the Procedures of Brothers' Enrollment
Chapter 59 Of the consecration of their sons by the nobles and the poor
Chapter 60-Of Priests Who Want to Live in the Monastery
Chapter 61: How to accept foreign monks
Chapter 62-Of the priests of the monastery
Chapter 63: On the turn of the community
Chapter 64: On the establishment of Papas
Chapter 65-Of the abbot of the monastery
Chapter 66-Of the Gatekeepers of the Monastery
Chapter 67-Of the brothers on the journey
Chapter 68-If A Brother Is Ordered To Do The Impossible
Chapter 69 Dare not to defend one another in the monastery
Chapter 70-No One Dare To Slap
Chapter 71-We will obey one another
Chapter 72-Of the good passion the monks should have
Chapter 73 Regarding that not all rules to comply with all morality are specified in this rulebook.