1 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered.

2 This was the first registration taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

3 So all the people went to their hometowns to be registered.

4 Joseph, too, went up from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was a descendant of the household and family of David.

5 He went there to be registered with Mary, who had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant.