'Be Clean' in the Bible

"You blind Pharisees, first clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside of it may be clean also.

Jesus, moved with compassion, put out his hand and touched him, saying, "I do choose, be clean!"

While, then, it was necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be cleansed by such sacrifices, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices than these.