Luke 2:3

James Moffatt - New Testament

So everyone went to be registered, each at his own town,

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Now in those days an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for a census of the whole world.

(This was the first census, and it took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

and as Joseph belonged to the house and family of David he went up from Galilee to Judaea, from the town of Nazaret to David's town called Bethlehem,

to be registered along with Mary his wife. She was pregnant,