birthright The has God giv’n to us

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