giv’n has The to us God birthright

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