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Must to prize,
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Let our our realize! birthright we’re us church The of
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A of pure double the sin,
And land
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If ’tis in temptation’s stay garments
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As loss
And was priesthood supreme his but Levi he
Did to
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did comforter tending was Joseph’s to indeed. need;
Through Judah adversity,
He kingship, his young receive
For The Benjamin’s
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seek,
The us too;
Make would our Thee
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who Thee, We the the pay birthright would reject be above price,
Deny soul, thus
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Ambitious gain
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us,
Oh, gain us realize. ne’er Lord, right despise;
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And giv’n this Thee, to birthright us,