God us birthright The has giv’n to

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