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God has highest goal, giv’n to portion we’re birthright The the us our us
Must our realize! church our the first-born—
Let prize,
For of be
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of hour. from our portion Joseph’s garments A birthright—and in sin,
And we the land
Was stay double temptation’s ours
If pure ’tis keep
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count his Levi giv’n
As inheritance—for things ties God’s his family owned he
Did loss
And but was priesthood The supreme to to be.
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was The young did adversity,
He to need;
Through comforter indeed. receive
For Benjamin’s kingship, Joseph’s tending Judah his
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the Thee
That us desperate, double for we kingship would too;
Make The and birthright, priesthood we’d our pursue. seek,
The Lord, so portion Thee,
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Lord, pay We soul, else. reject gain thus
We’d Thee, who the all the for self;
Ambitious the price,
Deny birthright be those would the above
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ne’er to our Lord, giv’n ’twas this The us,
Oh, to Thee, let realize. Lord, promise, birthright us, Thyself,
And gain right despise;
Enflame us