The Complete Rule of Benedict

Following is the complete index of The Rule of Benedict.  For the complete rule and detailed descriptions, visit The Order of Saint Benedict. 

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"The Rule of Benedict (RB) constitutes the basic guide for thousands of Christians who are committed to the monastic movement. Many disciples of Jesus followed the Rule in the past and many still do so today. Written in the sixth century the Rule was followed in thousands of monasteries in Europe, so much so that the Church of the early Middle Ages, beginning especially in the ninth century, was characterized as monastic." - osb.com

The Prologue
Chapter 1: On the Kinds of Monks
Chapter 2: What Kind of Person the Abbess Ought to Be
Chapter 3: On Calling the Brethren for Counsel
Chapter 4: What Are the Instruments of Good Works
Chapter 5: On Obedience
Chapter 6: On the Spirit of Silence
Chapter 7: On Humility
Chapter 8: On the Divine Office During the Night
Chapter 9: How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at the Night
Chapter 10: How the Night Office Is to Be Said in Summer Time
Chapter 11: How the Night Office Is to Be Said on Sundays
Chapter 12: How the Morning Office is to Be Said
Chapter 13: How the Morning Office to Be Said on Weekdays
Chapter 14: How the Night Office Is to Be Said on the Feasts of the Saints
Chapter 15: At What Times "Alleluia" Is to Be Said
Chapter 16: How the Work of God Is to Be Performed During the Day
Chapter 17: How Many Psalms Are to Be Said at These Hours
Chapter 18: In What Order the Psalms Are to Be Said
Chapter 19: On the Manner of Saying the Divine Office
Chapter 20: On Reverence in Prayer
Chapter 21: On the Deans of the Monastery
Chapter 22: How They Are to Sleep
Chapter 23: On Excommunication for Faults
Chapter 24: What the Measure of Excommunication Should Be
Chapter 25: On Weightier Faults
Chapter 26: On Those Who Without an Order Associate With the Excommunicated
Chapter 27: How Solicitous the Abbot Should Be for the Excommunicated
Chapter 28: On Those Who Will Not Amend After Repeated Corrections
Chapter 29: Whether Brothers Who Leave the Monastery Should Be Received Again
Chapter 30: How Boys Are to Be Corrected
Chapter 31: What Kind of Man the Cellarer of the Monastery Should Be
Chapter 32: On the Tools and Property of the Monastery
Chapter 33: Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own
Chapter 34: Whether All Should Receive in Equal Measure What Is Necessary
Chapter 35: On the Weekly Servers in the Kitchen
Chapter 36: On the Sick
Chapter 37: On Old Men and Children
Chapter 38: On the Weekly Reader
Chapter 39: On the Measure of Food
Chapter 40: On the Measure of Drink
Chapter 41: At What Hours the Meals Should Be Taken
Chapter 42: That No One Speak After Compline
Chapter 43: On Those Who Come Late to the Work of God or to Table
Chapter 44: How the Excommunicated Are to make Satisfaction
Chapter 45: On Those Who Make Mistakes in the Oratory
Chapter 46: On Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters
Chapter 47: On Giving the Signal for the Time of the Work of God
Chapter 48: On the Daily Manual Labor
Chapter 49: On the Observance of Lent
Chapter 50: On Those Who Are Working Far From the Oratory or Are on a Journey
Chapter 51: On Brethren Who Go Not Very Far Away
Chapter 52: On the Oratory of the Monastery
Chapter 53: On the Reception of Guests
Chapter 54: Whether Monastics Should Receive Letters or Anything Else
Chapter 55: On the Clothes and Shoes of the Brethren
Chapter 56: On the Abbess's Table
Chapter 57: On the Artisans of the Monastery
Chapter 58: On the Manner of Receiving Sisters
Chapter 59: On the Sons of Nobles and of the Poor Who Are Offered
Chapter 60: On Priests Who May Wish to Live in the Monastery
Chapter 61: How Pilgrim Monks Are to Be Received
Chapter 62: On the Priests of the Monastery
Chapter 63: On the Order of the Community
Chapter 64: On Constituting an Abbess
Chapter 65: On the Prior of the Monastery
Chapter 66: On the Porters of the Monastery
Chapter 67: On Brethren Who Are Sent on a Journey
Chapter 68: If a Sister is Commanded to Do Impossible Things
Chapter 69: That the Monks Presume Not to Defend One Another
Chapter 70: That No One Venture to Punish at Random
Chapter 71: That the Brethren Be Obedient to One Another
Chapter 72: On the Good Zeal Which They Ought to Have
Chapter 73: On the Fact That the Full Observance of Justice Is Not Established in This Rule