“‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
⛓ Read Leviticus 19 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.
'The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning' is the Holiness-Code companion to Deuteronomy 24, prohibiting exactly the withholding James condemns.
High confidenceThe principle that 'the laborer is worthy of his wages' reflects the Levitical command not to keep back the wages of a hired worker overnight. The just and timely payment of the laborer undergirds the double honor owed to elders.
Medium confidenceThe Holiness Code's 'you shall not defraud your neighbor nor rob him; the wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you overnight' is the strongest single source for Mark's 'Do not defraud.' Its pairing of fraud with withheld wages fits Jesus' demand that this wealthy man divest. Verbal contact on 'defraud' lifts this above generic.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Parallel wage-law ('the wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning'); reinforces the same-day payment background of 20:8.
Low confidence