Scripture Reading: Luke 2:1-7
New International  Version (NIV)

 

Luke 2

1

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.

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(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

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And everyone went to his own town to register.

4

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.

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He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.

6

While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born,

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and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

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