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Laws relating to hiring

Hired workers must be paid on time

Leviticus 19:13 See also Deuteronomy 24:14-15; James 5:4

Regular rates of pay must be established

Leviticus 25:50

Hired workers are to be treated with kindness

Leviticus 25:6,39-40,53

Hired foreigners were excluded from the Passover

Exodus 12:43-45

Hired workers must be carefully chosen

Proverbs 26:10

Loss of a hired animal is covered by the price

Exodus 22:15

Various kinds of hiring

A hired husband

Genesis 30:16

A hired prophet

Deuteronomy 23:4 See also Nehemiah 6:12-13; Nehemiah 13:2; Jude 11

A hired priest

Judges 17:10; Judges 18:4

Hired soldiers

Judges 9:4; 2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Kings 7:6; 1 Chronicles 19:6-7; 2 Chronicles 25:6; Jeremiah 46:21 No hired mercenary army was ever approved by the LORD (see 2Ch 25:7-10).

Other hirings

1 Samuel 2:5 hirings for food; 2 Chronicles 24:12 masons and carpenters; Ezra 4:5 counsellors; Isaiah 7:20 a razor, symbolising the judgment to be brought by the king of Assyria; Isaiah 23:17 prostitutes; Isaiah 46:6 goldsmiths; Mark 1:20 fishermen

Teachings illustrated by hired workers

The brevity and hardness of life

Job 7:1-3 See also Job 14:6

Christian workers

Matthew 20:1-15 This parable teaches that believers should not serve in a mercenary spirit but recognise that God's reward is based upon grace.

The severity of the world and the kindness of God

See also Luke 15:15-19

The difference between hired and good shepherds

John 10:11-13 See also 1 Peter 5:2

See also

5212  arts and crafts
5272  craftsmen
5311  extortion
5404  masters
5406  mercenaries
5433  occupations
5520  servants
5603  wages
5628  work
6720  redemption
8342  servanthood
8790  oppression