us The birthright to has God giv’n

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