613 Mitzvot
Employees, Servants and Slaves
- Not to delay payment of a hired man's wages (Lev. 19:13)
- That the hired laborer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is
reaping (Deut. 23:25-26)
- That the hired laborer shall not take more than he can eat (Deut. 23:25)
- That a hired laborer shall not eat produce that is not being harvested
(Deut. 23:26)
- To pay wages to the hired man at the due time (Deut. 24:15) (CCA66).
- To deal judicially with the Hebrew bondman in accordance with the laws
appertaining to him (Ex. 21:2-6) (affirmative).
- Not to compel the Hebrew servant to do the work of a slave (Lev. 25:39)
(negative).
- Not to sell a Hebrew servant as a slave (Lev. 25:42) (negative).
- Not to treat a Hebrew servant rigorously (Lev. 25:43) (negative).
- Not to permit a gentile to treat harshly a Hebrew bondman sold to him (Lev.
25:53) (negative).
- Not to send away a Hebrew bondman servant empty handed, when he is freed
from service (Deut. 15:13) (negative).
- To bestow liberal gifts upon the Hebrew bondsman (at the end of his term of
service), and the same should be done to a Hebrew bondwoman (Deut. 15:14)
(affirmative).
- To redeem a Hebrew maid-servant (Ex. 21:8) (affirmative).
- Not to sell a Hebrew maid-servant to another person (Ex. 21:8) (negative).
- To espouse a Hebrew maid-servant (Ex. 21:8-9) (affirmative).
- To keep the Canaanite slave forever (Lev. 25:46) (affirmative).
- Not to surrender a slave, who has fled to the land of Israel, to his owner
who lives outside Palestine (Deut. 23:16) (negative).
- Not to wrong such a slave (Deut. 23:17) (negative).
- Not to muzzle a beast, while it is working in produce which it can eat and
enjoy (Deut. 25:4)