This "Code" Is Big, but Not a Best Seller
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The U.S. tax code has about 7 million words. That's about nine times as many as in the Holy Bible (773,000 words) or about eight times as many as the collected plays of William Shakespeare with 884,647 words (April 21, 2006, The Week, quoted from Newsday).
That kind of complexity is hard to beat. For simplicity, the Bible's financial principles are second to none. They can be expressed in a few dozen verses, including Genesis 14:20; Proverbs 27:23-27; Haggai 2:8; Malachi 3:8-10; Matthew 6:24-33; and John 10:10.
