Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep ready dressed and five measures of parched grain and one hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys — Abigail acts with urgency and with calculated abundance. The specific quantities (dualistic and multiples: 200, 5, 100, 2) suggest a woman of wealth and management who understands the language of appeasement in ancient Near Eastern diplomacy.

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