1 At that time the Emperor Augustus ordered a census of the Roman Empire.
2 This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.
3 All the people went to register in the cities where their ancestors had lived.
4 So Joseph went from Nazareth, a city in Galilee, to a Judean city called Bethlehem. Joseph, a descendant of King David, went to Bethlehem because David had been born there.