giv’n birthright The God has to us

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