Luke 2:1-7 ▼

1 Now in those days an edict was published by Augustus Cesar, that all the world should be enrolled or taxed,

2 (this tax was first levied when Cyrenius was governor of Syria) and they all went to be enrolled,

3 every one to his own city:

4 so Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem (because he

5 was of the house and line of David) to be enrolled with Mary his espoused wife, who was big with child.

6 And while they were there, the days of her delivery were fulfilled,

7 and she brought forth her son, the first-born, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.