Luke 2:3

New Living Translation

All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census.

Cross References

Genesis 23:10

Ephron was sitting there among the others, and he answered Abraham as the others listened, speaking publicly before all the Hittite elders of the town.

Luke 2:1

At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire.

Luke 2:2

(This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

Luke 2:4

And because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David’s ancient home. He traveled there from the village of Nazareth in Galilee.

Luke 2:5

He took with him Mary, to whom he was engaged, who was now expecting a child.