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