The concept is an old one:

May you not go on the roads of the western ones [the dead];

They who go on them [travellers] do not return.

Pyramid Text 2175ab

There is nobody who returns from there.

Papyrus Harris 500, vol. VI, line 8

Behold, there is nobody who has gone, who has returned.

Ibid., VII, 2-3

None that have gone have come back.

Song of Vizier Paser, line 12

. . .

On her descent into the Netherworld, the gatekeeper of the Netherworld asks the goddess Inanna:

Why pray, have you come to the 'Land of No Return,'

On the road whose traveler returns never,

how has your heart led you?

Sumerian Descent of Inanna

The Semitic version of the same story has lines similarly applicable to Lehi's imagery:

To the house form which he enters never goes forth;

To the road whose path does not lead back.

Descent of Ishtar, obv., lines 5-6.

. . .

Rise, shake off your dust!

Coffin Text, Spell I, 71ab

Raise yourself, throw off your dust, . . . loosen your bonds, . . !

Pyramid Text, 1363ac (following Faulkner); Coffin Text, III, 248ae

Raise yourself, shake off the dust of the earth which is on your flesh!

Pyramid Text, 654ad (following Faulkner & Zandee)

Throw off your dust, loosen your bonds!

Pyramid Texts, 2008ab; 2009a (following Faulkner)

Your ties are loosened!

Pyramid Text, 593a