what make Antonio refer to Jacob
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Shylock uses a story of Jacob from Genesis 30:25–43 to defend his practice of charging interest. ... When he and Laban agreed that all the spotted lambs would be Jacob's pay, it was the end of autumn, when the sheep were starting to mate.
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Antonio refers to Jacob in order to prove that he became prosperous not because he had the power to arrange the birth of streaked and spotted lambs but because of God's will who decided and directed the whole thing.
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