Luk 2:1 | HCSB | STEP | In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered .

Luke 2:1

1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus ^{▼▼Emperor who ruled the Roman Empire 27 b.c.-a.d. 14; also known as Octavian, he established the peaceful era known as the Pax Romana; Caesar was a title of Roman emperors.} ^b that the whole empire ^{▼▼Or the whole inhabited world} should be registered.