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