'Hired' in the Bible

A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant's son and any hired help may refresh themselves.

You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.

"'No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest's lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat -- you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

for they did not meet you with food and water on the way as you came from Egypt, and furthermore, they hired Balaam son of Beor of Pethor in Aram Naharaim to curse you.

Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.

He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, "He hired me and I became his priest."

When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them, they sent and hired 20,000 foot soldiers from Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah, in addition to 1,000 men from the king of Maacah and 12,000 men from Ish-tob.

They would then hand over the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord's temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord's temple,

They hired 32,000 chariots, along with the king of Maacah and his army, who came and camped in front of Medeba. The Ammonites also assembled from their cities and marched out to do battle.

The king and Jehoiada gave it to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord's temple. They hired carpenters and craftsmen to repair the Lord's temple, as well as those skilled in working with iron and bronze to restore the Lord's temple.

He hired 100,000 Israelite warriors for a hundred talents of silver.

I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat.

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

for they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)

"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

At that time the sovereign master will use a razor hired from the banks of the Euphrates River, the king of Assyria, to shave the head and the pubic hair; it will also shave off the beard.

Those who make cloth will be demoralized; all the hired workers will be depressed.

They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.

Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, I will soon gather them together for judgment. Then they will begin to waste away under the oppression of a mighty king.

They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You go and work in the vineyard too.'

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.'

When those hired about five o'clock came, each received a full day's pay.

And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

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

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers."'

The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.