God to has us birthright The giv’n

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