In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered

And all went to be registered, each to his own town.

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was in the house and lineage of David,

To be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.

And wile they were there, he time came for her to give birth.

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the in