Does Biblical law require employers to pay their employees daily?/zh

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有關法律規定：

13 「『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. Leviticus 19:13WEB

加里-諾斯認為，這條律法是 "聖經中上帝確實禁止自願經濟契約的罕見案例之一。"。

錯了。聖經》法律支持自願的、非欺詐性的合同。

法律的目的是禁止僱主對勞動者的 "壓迫"。具體的壓迫是指僱主竊取僱員工資的 "選擇價值"（有人稱之為 "時間價值"）。在溫飽水平的經濟中，哪怕是勞動者用錢行使選擇權的機會受到小小的破壞，也會產生壓迫的效果。聖經的原則是：除非工人同意延遲付款，否則就是偷竊。但聖經的法律不允許民事政府干預自願的、非欺詐性的交易。這是神的律法與人的律法的區別之一。它斥責了所有現代法律制度。

在現代社會，工人的工資可能是每周、每兩周或每月。他們往往認為沒有必要堅持在每天工作結束時領取工資。在特定的時間段內，合併工資對僱主和僱員都有好處。然而，如果你為一個 "現金流 "緊張的僱主工作，如果他們每天都要支付工人的工資，他們就無法支付工資，那麼你可以考慮尋找一個能更好地管理他們的錢的僱主）。

As a Biblical principle of stewardship, in caring for your family, you should not (if you have the choice) be living even "paycheck-to-paycheck," much less "daily wage-to-daily wage". If you are truly "poor" (the way many in the Third world are), then you are probably not reading this web article. And we won't even talk about voluntarily going into debt.

Someone might suggest: "the employer is profiting off the employee by not paying him interest for those [two or four] weeks; that is theft!" It would be theft, if that was not voluntarily (contractually) agreed to by the employee. When the employee negotiates his wage, he is also negotiating the "choice value" of being paid every two weeks (or every month). The interest (which is the rental price of the wage's "choice value") becomes included in the wage, by definition. The employer cannot be accused of stealing what he is already paying for.