1 In those days Augustus Caesar issued an edict for a census of the whole inhabited world.2 This was the first census, When Quirinius was governor of Syria.3 And every one went to be registered, each to the town to which he belonged.4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city if Nazareth, into Judea, to Davids town of Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.5 He went to be registered along with Mary, who was espoused to him, and was pregnant.