The biblical origin of “Keep my wife’s name out your f***king mouth.”

Will Smith may have drawn on Hebrew scripture when he used that curious phrase.

I did not see it live, but it is hard to avoid the smack heard around the world. The actor Will Smith—taking offense at a joke that comedian Chris Rock delivered on stage at the Oscars about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith—slapped Rock on live television. Then as many were trying to divine whether this was staged (there is prior history between Smith and R…