Luke 2:3
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New International Version (©2011)
And everyone went to their own town to register.

New Living Translation (©2007)
All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And all went to be registered, each to his own town.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So everyone went to be registered, each to his own town.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So all the people went to their hometowns to be registered.

NET Bible (©2006)
Everyone went to his own town to be registered.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And everyone was going to be registered in his own city.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
All the people went to register in the cities where their ancestors had lived.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

American King James Version
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

American Standard Version
And all went to enrol themselves, every one to his own city.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all went to be enrolled, every one into his own city.

Darby Bible Translation
And all went to be inscribed in the census roll, each to his own city:

English Revised Version
And all went to enroll themselves, every one to his own city.

Webster's Bible Translation
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

Weymouth New Testament
and all went to be registered--every one to the town to which he belonged.

World English Bible
All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.

Young's Literal Translation
and all were going to be enrolled, each to his proper city,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:1-7 The fulness of time was now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman, and made under the law. The circumstances of his birth were very mean. Christ was born at an inn; he came into the world to sojourn here for awhile, as at an inn, and to teach us to do likewise. We are become by sin like an outcast infant, helpless and forlorn; and such a one was Christ. He well knew how unwilling we are to be meanly lodged, clothed, or fed; how we desire to have our children decorated and indulged; how apt the poor are to envy the rich, and how prone the rich to disdain the poor. But when we by faith view the Son of God being made man and lying in a manger, our vanity, ambition, and envy are checked. We cannot, with this object rightly before us, seek great things for ourselves or our children.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And all went to be taxed,.... Throughout Judea, Galilee, and Syria; men, women, and children,

every one into his own city; where he was born, and had any estate, and to which he belonged.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. went … to his own city—the city of his extraction, according to the Jewish custom, not of his abode, which was the usual Roman method.

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The Birth of Jesus
1And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. …

Luke 2:1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
Luke 2:2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
Luke 2:4 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.
Luke 2:5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.