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.