The to us has God birthright giv’n

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