| The Darby Translation (DBY) | New International Version (NIV) |
| 1 But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world. | 1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. |
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