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Around this time, Emperor Augustus issued an order for a census to be taken throughout the Empire.
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This registration, the first of its kind, took place when Quirinius was governing in Syria.
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Everyone went to be registered, each to his own town.
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So Yosef, because he was a descendant of David, went up from the town of Natzeret in the Galil to the town of David, called Beit-Lechem, in Y'hudah,
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to be registered, with Miryam, to whom he was engaged, and who was pregnant.
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While they were there, the time came for her to give birth;
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and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in cloth and laid him down in a feeding trough, because there was no space for them in the living-quarters.
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In the countryside nearby were some shepherds spending the night in the fields, guarding their flocks,