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

I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

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

They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.