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And it chaunced in thoose dayes: yt ther went oute a comaundment from Auguste the Emperour that all the woorlde shuld be taxed.
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And this taxynge was ye fyrst and executed when Syrenius was leftenaut in Syria.
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And every man went vnto his awne citie to be taxed.
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And Ioseph also ascended from Galile oute of a cite called Nazareth into Iurie: vnto ye cite of David which is called Bethleem because he was of the housse and linage of David
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to be taxed with Mary his spoused wyfe which was with chylde.
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And it fortuned whyll they were there her tyme was come that she shuld be delyvered.
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And she brought forth her fyrst begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadlynge cloothes and layed him in a manger because ther was no roume for them within in the ynne.