1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
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(This was the first census that took place while[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
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And everyone went to their own town to register.
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So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.