1 About that time, Cesar Augustus issued an edict, that all the inhabitants of the empire should be registered.2 (This first register took effect, when Cyrenius was president of Syria.)3 When all went to be registered, every one of his own city,4 Joseph also went from Nazareth, a city of Galilee, to a city of David in Judea, called Bethlehem, (for he was of the house and lineage of David,)5 to be registered, with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was pregnant.