1 And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
2 (This taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be registered, each to [his] own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee to be taxed (out of [the] city of Nazareth, into Judea, to [the] city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of [the] house and family line of David).
5 And he took Mary his betrothed wife, being with child.