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Freeman is also the author of The Scarlet Cord: Conversations With God’s Chosen Women, which analyzed the stories of 12 women in the Bible.

Mother Mary with her Son Jesus of the Holy Bible

There are 93 women who speak in the Bible, 49 of whom are named. These women speak a total of 14,056 words collectively — roughly 1.1 percent of the total words in the holy book.

Some of the biblical women are prominent and well-known, like Jesus’ mother, Mary, who utters just 191 words. Mary Magdalene says 61 words, while Sarah, the wife of Abraham, says 141. Many of the female characters in the Bible go through what Freeman called “tremendous trauma,” and have largely been silenced over the centuries.

The Rev. Lindsay Hardin Freeman says team members were sometimes surprised or moved by their findings.

There are 93 women who speak in the Bible, 49 of whom are named. These women speak a total of 14,056 words collectively — roughly 1.1 percent of the total words in the holy book.

These are the findings of the Rev. Lindsay Hardin Freeman, an Episcopal priest who three years ago embarked on an unprecedented project: to count all the words spoken by women in the Bible. With the help of three other women in her church community — as well as highlighters, sticky notes and spreadsheets — Freeman painstakingly dissected the Bible’s New Revised Standard Version.

“I wanted to know what women in the Bible really said,” Freeman told The Huffington Post. “I was stunned to see that nobody had done this before.”

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