Luke 2:1-6

¹Now it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole inhabited world should be enrolled.

²This first census took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.

³So everyone was traveling, each to his own town, to enroll himself.

⁴So Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of Natsareth town, into Judea to the city of David, that is called Bethlehem, because he was of David's ‘house’, that is, line of descent,

⁵to enroll himself with Mary, the woman who had been betrothed to him, who was pregnant.

⁶So it happened that when they got there the days for her to give birth were completed;