The Pharisees' question about divorce was a trap. They hoped He would contradict Moses or offend Herod Antipas. Remember that John the Baptist had just been beheaded for questioning Herod's newest marriage.
A certificate of divorce was a document signed before witnesses. Its intent was to limit frivolous divorces. In Jesus' day the interpretation of this custom varied. Some communities allowed divorce for almost any reason, while other communities permitted divorce only for sexual impurity.
In the first century, Jewish men were allowed to divorce their wives for many different reasons. But Jewish women were far more restricted in their grounds for divorce. One of the few had to do with her husband's occupation. If he were a copper smelter, tanner, or dung collector, she could get a divorce, even if she knew before she married what his trade was, on the grounds that she couldn't have known how awful the smell would be. *
Source: New Illustrated Bible Commentary.
So Hollywood doesn't have the first track record of "frivilous divorces". I think divorcing someone over the smell of thier profession is quite frivilous.
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