Luke 2:1
The Birth of Jesus
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In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
Read Luke 2:1 Using Other Translations
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire.
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