ÒIn those
days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census
should be taken of the entire Roman worldÉ And everyone
went to his own town to register.
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. He
went there with Mary,
who was pledged to be married to him and was
expecting a child. While they were
there, the time came for
the baby to be bornÉÓ – Luke 2:1-6