Luke 2:3 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

³ Everyone had to go to their own hometown to be listed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And all the people were going to be registered, each to his own city or town.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And all went to enrol themselves, every one to his own city.

Common English Bible

³ Everyone went to their own cities to be enrolled.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And all went to be declared, each one to his own city.

Luke 2:3 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 23:10

Ephron was sitting there near the city gate, when Abraham made this request, and he answered,

Luke 2:1

About that time Emperor Augustus gave orders for the names of all the people to be listed in record books.

Luke 2:2

These first records were made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

Luke 2:4

So Joseph had to leave Nazareth in Galilee and go to Bethlehem in Judea. Long ago Bethlehem had been King David's hometown, and Joseph went there because he was from David's family.

Luke 2:5

Mary was engaged to Joseph and traveled with him to Bethlehem. She was soon going to have a baby,