to has giv’n us The God birthright

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