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Originally Posted by Raymond
Arranged marriages used to be quite the norm in nearly every country in the world at one time but divorce was still divorce. Even in Britain during the victorian era and back it existed. I suppose people just trusted their parents to ge it right and could have a bit of input. Divorce was rare.
I suspect it existed in Israel at the time of Jesus but I haven't studied it.
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Yes it did, and Mary and Josephs marriage was almost certainly arranged by their parents.