us has giv’n birthright to God The

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