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Luke 2:1-7

1 The Birth of Jesus Matthew 1:18-25Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.Acts 5:37 3 So all the people went to their hometowns to be registered.

4 Joseph, too, went up from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was a descendant ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks a descendant} of the household and family of David.1Sam 16:1, 4; Matt 1:16; Luke 1:27; John 7:42 5 He went there ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks He went there} to be registered with Mary, who had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant.Matt 1:16; Luke 1:27

6 While they were there, the time came for her to have her baby, 7 and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was not any room for them in the inn. ^{▼▼Or in the guest room}Matt 1:25