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

That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:

And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.

And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan: