birthright giv’n The to us has God

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