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Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.
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This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria.
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And all men went to be numbered, everyone to his town.
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And Joseph went up from Galilee, out of the town of Nazareth, into Judaea, to Beth-lehem, the town of David, because he was of the house and family of David,
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To be put on the list with Mary, his future wife, who was about to become a mother.
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And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth.