Luke 2:1-11

1 And it chaunced in thoose dayes: yt ther went oute a comaundment from Auguste the Emperour that all the woorlde shuld be taxed.

2 And this taxynge was ye fyrst and executed when Syrenius was leftenaut in Syria.

3 And every man went vnto his awne citie to be taxed.

4 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

5 to be taxed with Mary his spoused wyfe which was with chylde.

6 And it fortuned whyll they were there her tyme was come that she shuld be delyvered.

7 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.

8 And ther were in the same region shepherdes abydinge in the felde and watching their flocke by nyght.

9 And loo: the angell of ye lorde stode harde by the and the brightnes of ye lorde shone rounde aboute them and they were soare afrayed.

10 But the angell sayd vnto them: Be not afrayed. For beholde I bringe you tydinges of greate ioye yt shal come to all ye people:

11 for vnto you is borne this daye in the cite of David a saveoure which is Christ ye lorde.