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I recently read the book "A Year Of Living Biblically". As I was at the airport, getting ready to leave for Malaysia, I found the book at the airport, and during the flight I read it cover to cover.

It was hilarious and really thoughtful. Imagine a secular jewish atheist who decides to try to follow every law in the Bible for a year. He starts by reading the Bible cover to cover and making a list of 700 some laws. Each month he picks more and more things to concentrate on including in his life. He spends 9 months living according to the Old Testament and 3 months living according to the New Testaments. He gets lots of pastors and rabbis to advice him during his journey. He tries to dress Biblically and eliminate any clothes with the improper mix of fibers, blow a rams horn every month (at the start of our calendar months and the jewish months too, just to be sure), learns how to keep the Sabbath, focuses on being fruitful and multiplying with his wife, learns to play a harp but wonders about the issue of how many strings the proper Biblical harp should have, carries a portable stool to be avoid sitting on a chair that a woman in her menstrual period might have sat on, etc. He tells about his inner struggles, and how he wonders if he really lives according to these things, will they help him believe in them.

Unfortunately the book does not include an appendix about the list of rules that he came up with. I wish it had that, I would have found it very interesting to read them.

Then I realized that maybe I should go through the Bible and attempt to come up with such a list of every command in the Bible. What an interesting idea, to read the whole Bible with a purpose in mind.

I decided I would make my list a little more comprehensive than just the list of 700 or so rules that the Jewish scholars have come up with by including any command given to anyone. I want to cover the following items:

• What the command is
• What Bible verse is it in
• Who was giving the command
• What was the audience of the command
• Does it seem to be a command for all of us

I don't know how long it will take me to finish this project, but it should be a fun one. Eventually, I'll probably put all the information in a database to make it searchable. But for now, publishing my findings on wiki pages should be good enough. If you'd like to contribute to this project, please feel free to add any Biblical commands you aware of. Please always include the verse where the command is found.

• List of books of the Bible

Old Testament

• Genesis
• Exodus
• Leviticus
• Numbers
• Deuteronomy
• Joshua
• Judges
• Ruth
• 1 Samuel
• 2 Samuel
• 1 Kings
• 2 Kings
• 1 Chronicles
• 2 Chronicles
• Ezra
• Nehemiah
• Esther
• Job
• Psalms
• Proverbs
• Ecclesiastes
• Song of Solomon
• Isaiah
• Jeremiah
• Lamentations
• Ezekiel
• Daniel
• Hosea
• Joel
• Amos
• Obadiah
• Jonah
• MIcah
• Nahum
• Habakkuk
• Zephaniah
• Haggai
• Zechariah
• Malachi

New Testament

• Matthew
• Mark
• Luke
• JOhn
• Acts
• Romans
• 1 Corinthians
• 2 Corinthians
• Galatians
• Ephesians
• Philippians
• Colossians
• 1 Thessalonians
• 2 Thessalonians
• 1 Timothy
• 2 Timothy
• Titus
• Philemon
• Hebrews
• James
• 1 Peter
• 2 Peter
• 1 John
• 2 John
• 3 John
• Jude
• Revelation