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Luke 2:1
Contemporary English Version

The Birth of Jesus

(Matthew 1.18-25)

2 About that time Emperor Augustus gave orders for the names of all the people to be listed in record books.[a]

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  1. 2.1 names … listed in record books: This was done so that everyone could be made to pay taxes to the Emperor.
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Luke 2:4-5
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4 So Joseph had to leave Nazareth in Galilee and go to Bethlehem in Judea. Long ago Bethlehem had been King David's hometown, and Joseph went there because he was from David's family.

5 Mary was engaged to Joseph and traveled with him to Bethlehem. She was soon going to have a baby,

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