Luke 2:1 - Revised Version 1885

Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled.

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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

IN THOSE days it occurred that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole Roman empire should be registered.

Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled.

In those days Caesar Augustus declared that everyone throughout the empire should be enrolled in the tax lists.

And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, so that the whole world would be enrolled.

AND it came to pass, that in those days there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that the whole world should be enrolled.