Ibn Ezra, on Gen 35:2

“And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.”

“1 Remove all of your strange gods. Heaven that a prophet should lie with a woman who worshiped foreign gods! And the explanation for this is as we find in Parashat Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31). 2 purify yourselves. that you should wash your body 3 and change your clothes. From this source we learn that is incumbent upon any Israelite when he goes to pray in a fixed place to have a clean body and clean clothes.”

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