1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the world.
2 This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.
3 And all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,
5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child.