giv’n birthright The us has to God

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