Luke 2:1-5

¹About that time an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole Empire.

²(This was the first census taken while Quirinius was Governor of Syria).

³And everyone went to his own town to be registered.

⁴Amongst others Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem, the town of David, in Judea — because he belonged to the family and house of David —

⁵To be registered with Mary, his engaged wife, who was about to become a mother.