Exodus 30:13

¹³ This shall they give -- every one that passeth among them that are numbered -- half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, -- twenty gerahs the shekel; a half shekel shall be the heave-offering for Jehovah.

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.