to The giv’n birthright us God has

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