You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates. In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 24 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'You shall give him his wages… lest he cry against you to the LORD' is the law James indicts the rich for breaking: 'the wages of the laborers you kept back by fraud cry out.' The crying-out-to-God of withheld wages is verbally and legally precise.
High confidenceThe maxim about the laborer's wages aligns with the Deuteronomic command to pay the poor hired worker each day before sunset, lest he cry out to the Lord. The principle of due reward for labor stands behind Paul's argument for supporting elders.
Medium confidenceThe Torah commands paying a hired laborer his wages the same day, before sundown: 'When evening had come... pay them their wages' (20:8) directly enacts this hired-laborer wage law, giving the parable its legal verisimilitude and its concern with what is 'right' (dikaion).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The address to servants and masters with assurance of just recompense faintly recalls Deuteronomy's protection of the hired servant and his wages before God. Low/contested; thematic coherence (labor, fair reward, God as guarantor) without verbal citation.
Low confidence