'Hired' in the Bible

When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.

A temporary resident or hired hand may not eat the Passover.

“You must not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired hand must not remain with you until morning.

“No one outside a priest’s family is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired hand is not to eat the holy offering.

Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you—for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you.

Let him stay with you as a hired hand or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

The one who purchased him is to calculate the time from the year he sold himself to him until the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years. It will be set for him like the daily wages of a hired hand.

He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A foreign owner is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.

Do not regard it as a hardship when you set him free, because he worked for you six years—worth twice the wages of a hired hand. Then the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the journey after you came out of Egypt, and because Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim was hired to curse you.

“Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town in your land.

So they gave him 70 pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-berith. Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men with this money, and they followed him.

He told them what Micah had done for him and that he had hired him as his priest.

When the Ammonites realized they had become repulsive to David, they hired 20,000 foot soldiers from the Arameans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, 1,000 men from the king of Maacah, and 12,000 men from Tob.

Then he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired sheepshearers. Will the king and his servants please come with your servant?”

for the Lord had caused the Aramean camp to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army. The Arameans had said to each other, “The king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to attack us.”

They hired 32,000 chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and camped near Medeba. The Ammonites also came together from their cities for the battle.

Then for 7,500 pounds of silver he hired 100,000 brave warriors from Israel.

I realized that God had not sent him, because of the prophecy he spoke against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

He was hired, so that I would be intimidated, do as he suggested, sin, and get a bad reputation, in order that they could discredit me.

because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse them, but our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Isn’t mankind consigned to forced labor on earth?Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Like a slave he longs for shade;like a hired man he waits for his pay.

look away from him and let him restso that he can enjoy his day like a hired hand.

On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave the head, the hair on the legs, and to remove the beard as well.

And now the Lord says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.”

For the Lord said this to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker counts years, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

“‘Because no one hired us,’ they said to him.“‘You also go to my vineyard,’ he told them.

“When those who were hired about five came, they each received one denarius.

Immediately He called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.

When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!

I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired hands.’

The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.

This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.