to God us giv’n has birthright The

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