1. And like a hired worker, he waits for his wages.

2. 45 A settler and a hired worker may not eat of it.

3. 19:13 The hired worker may eat from the unharvested crops where he works — Deut.

4. WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS: “You must not defraud a hired worker who is in need and poor.”

5. However, in discussions relating to labor law application, the term "farmworker" is sometimes used more narrowly, applying only to a hired worker involved in agricultural production, including harvesting, i.e. not to a worker in other on-farm jobs, such as packing.

6. 5 “I will come near to you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers,+ against the adulterers, against those who take false oaths,+ against those who defraud the hired worker,+ the widow, and the fatherless child,*+ and against those who refuse to help* the foreigner.