Bible Verses About Wives: Not to be selected from among the ungodly

and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.