Midrash su Deuteronomio 24:15

3) (Vayikra 25:40) ("As a hired man and as a sojourner shall he be with you; until the Yovel year shall he work with you.") "As a hired man": Just as a hired man (Devarim 24:15) "On his day shall you give him his hire," so, this one, "On his day shall you give him his hire." "as a sojourner": Just as a sojourner (Devarim 23:17) "… what is good for him; you shall not oppress him," so, this one "… what is good for him; you shall not oppress him." "shall he be with you": "with you" in eating, "with you" in drinking, "with you" in covering — that you not eat a clean loaf and he eat a coarse loaf; that you (not) drink old wine and he drink new wine; that you (not) sleep on cotton and he sleep on straw. "shall he work with you": that he (the master) should not engage him for his craft to another. So that if he (the servant) were formerly a public bath-house attendant, a barber to the public, or a baker to the public, he should not do this (as a servant). R. Yossi says: If this were his trade (before he became a servant) he should do it; but his master should not bid him to do so ab initio. But the sages said: He cuts his (the master's) hair, and washes his garment, and bakes his dough. (Vayikra 25:41) ("Then he shall go out from you; and his children with him. And he shall return to his family, and to the holding of his fathers shall he return.") "Then he shall go out from you": (From this we may infer) that you (the servant) should not be in the village and he in the city, or you in the city and he in the village. "he and his children with him": (from which we may infer) Just as his master is obligated to feed him, so is he obligated to feed his wife and children. I might think, even if he married a woman without the knowledge of his master; it is, therefore, written "he (and his wife) and his children" — Just as he, with the knowledge of his master, so, his wife and children with the knowledge of his master.

What did the Holy One, blessed be He, do, so that there should be peace between them? He made the one larger and the other smaller, as it is said, "The greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night and the stars he also made" (ibid.).

The two different items that were pledged—habol tahbol.²²Though Exod. 22:25 speaks only of night garments, the repetition of the word haval (havol tahbol) indicates that two different pledges are referred to, and thus that it also refers to implements required in the daytime. The verse teaches us that if one borrows the pin of a plow, he must return it upon awakening. In one verse Scripture says: Thou shalt restore the garment unto him before the sun goeth down (Exod. 22:25). And another verse states: Neither shall the sun go down (Deut. 24:15). From these verses you can conclude that just as you must return the garment in which a man sleeps in the evening, as it is said: When the sun goeth down, so you must return the pin of the plow to him in the morning, before the sun goeth down. Furthermore, In the same day thou shalt give him his hire (Deut. 24:15). Why? Since he is poor. It states likewise: For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin, wherein shall he sleep? (Exod. 22:26). If he does not have his garment, he will suffer from the cold during the night and will cry unto Me and I will hear him (ibid.). Two matters, similar to each other, are treated here, a pledge and a man’s hire.