Text: Deuteronomy 24:14-15
OT Text Referred to: Leviticus 19:13
Subject: prompt payment of hired workers' wages
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Leviticus 19:13 commands "You must not withhold until morning the wages (פְּעֻלַּת שָׂכִיר, pe'ullat sakhir) due a hired hand." Deuteronomy 24:14-15 expands this with greater specificity: "You shall give him his wages on the day they are earned, before the sun sets, for he is poor and depends on them" — adding the motivation of the worker's poverty and the theological warning that the oppressed laborer "may cry out against you to the LORD, and you will be guilty of sin." The Deuteronomic restatement transforms the brief Levitical prohibition into a pastoral appeal grounded in compassion for the vulnerable and accountability before God.