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