Exodus 30:8

⁸ And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.

Arcana Coelestia #10247

10247. 'That they may not die' means so that what is representative may not be lost, as above in 10244.

Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.