Luke:2:1-7
lont@Luke:2:1 @ About that time, Cesar Augustus issued an edict, that all the inhabitants of the empire should be registered.
lont@Luke:2:2 @ (This first register took effect, when Cyrenius was president of Syria.)
lont@Luke:2:3 @ When all went to be registered, every one of his own city,
lont@Luke:2:4 @ Joseph also went from Nazareth, a city of Galilee, to a city of David in Judea, called Bethlehem, (for he was of the house and lineage of David,)
lont@Luke:2:5 @ to be registered, with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was pregnant.
lont@Luke:2:6 @ While they were there, the time came, that she should be delivered.
lont@Luke:2:7 @ And she brought forth her first born son, and swathed him, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the house allotted to strangers.