聖經》的律法是否要求僱主每天給員工發工資？

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The law in question states:

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

Gary North suggests that this law is, "one of the rare cases in Scripture where God does prohibit a voluntary economic contract."

Wrong. Biblical law supports voluntary, non-fraudulent contracts.

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雇員工資的 "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。

In modern times, workers might be paid weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. They often don't see the need to insist upon being paid at the end of each day of work. There are advantages to both the employer and employee to consolidating wages for a particular time period. (However, if you are working for an employer with such a tight "cash flow" that they couldn't make payroll if they had to pay their workers each day, then you might consider looking for an employer that manages their money better.)

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.