God has giv’n to us The birthright

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