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The "Benedictine Rule" is a very small booklet titled The Rule of St. Benedict. It is the only known writing that we have from the Saint. It is very short: under sixty chapters, and most of the chapters do not take up a whole page. One translation of the text is at the link below:

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You are mistaken.

St Benedict of Nursia was an Italian monk who wrote the first comprehensive set of rules for monks living in monasteries. This set of rules was adopted across the whole of Europe for all monks over the next 800 years.

The Regulum Sancti Bendicti (Rule of St Benedict) contains 73 chapters containg a very large number of regulations (far more than the three you mention), covering all aspects of a monk's life, including food, drink, clothing, appointment of officials, sleeping arrangements, the content of services, how guests should be welcomed, discipline and punishment and much more.

You may be thinking of the three vows taken by monks (which were not rules and not designed by St Benedict): poverty, chastity and obedience.

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