Related%20passage for Bava Metzia 9:11

שְׂכִיר יוֹם גּוֹבֶה כָל הַלַּיְלָה, שְׂכִיר לַיְלָה גּוֹבֶה כָל הַיּוֹם, שְׂכִיר שָׁעוֹת גּוֹבֶה כָל הַלַּיְלָה וְכָל הַיּוֹם. שְׂכִיר שַׁבָּת, שְׂכִיר חֹדֶשׁ, שְׂכִיר שָׁנָה, שְׂכִיר שָׁבוּעַ, יָצָא בַיּוֹם, גּוֹבֶה כָל הַיּוֹם, יָצָא בַלַּיְלָה, גּוֹבֶה כָל הַלַּיְלָה וְכָל הַיּוֹם:

A hired day-laborer claims (his wages) the entire night. A hired night-laborer claims the entire day. [("A hired day-laborer claims the entire night":) after that day, it being written (Leviticus 19:13): "There shall not abide the wages of a hired man with you until the morning." This cannot be speaking of a hired night-laborer, for hire is paid only at the end (of the working period), it being written (Ibid. 25:53): "As a hired man, year by year," which is expounded: The hire for this year is paid (only) at the beginning of the next year, whence we derive that he (the employer) is not indebted to the day-laborer until sunset. And (Deuteronomy 24:15): "the sun shall not go down upon it" must, perforce, apply to a hired night-laborer, the employer not being indebted to him until morning.] A hired hour-laborer claims the entire day and the entire night. [This is what is intended: A hired day hour-laborer claims the entire day; a hired night hour-laborer claims the entire night.] A hired week-laborer, a hired month-laborer, a hired year-laborer, a hired shemitah-laborer — if his hire ended in the day [i.e., in the morning or during the day], he claims the entire day, [and when the sun sets, the employer transgresses: "There shall not abide, etc."]. If his hire ended at night, he claims the entire night and the entire day. [For since his work continued into dark, he is like a hired night-laborer, and he (the employer) does not transgress in the morning until the next day at sunset.]

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