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