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wages in the Bible

• Rate of wages, mentioned only in Matthew 20:2

• Wages are to be paid punctually (Leviticus 19:13; Deuteronomy 24:14-15).

• Judgments threatened against the withholding of wages (Jeremiah 22:13; Mal. 3:5; compare James 5:4)

• Wages paid in money (Matthew 20:1-14)

• Wages paid to Jacob in kind (Genesis 29:15, 20; 30:28; 31:7-8, 41)

• “The wages of sin is death” —Romans 6:23

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