to birthright has us God The giv’n

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