Reference: Hireling, Hired Servant
Morish
These were distinct from the house servants who were generally slaves. Hired servants were engaged by the day and paid at the close of the day. A servant hired by the priest was not regarded as one of the family, and was not allowed to eat of the holy things, whereas the slaves were considered a part of the family. Le 19:13; 22:10; De 15:18; 24:14; Job 14:6; Mal 3:5. They are contrasted in the N.T. with the Shepherd who owned the sheep. Mt 20:1-8; Lu 15:17,19; Joh 10:12-13.
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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 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.
You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.
Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
"I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me," says the Lord who rules over all.
"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard. read more. When it was about nine o'clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work. He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.' So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o'clock that afternoon, he did the same thing. And about five o'clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, 'Why are you standing here all day without work?' 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.'
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.