1 En ce temps-là parut un édit de César Auguste, ordonnant un recensement de toute la terre.

2 Ce premier recensement eut lieu pendant que Quirinius était gouverneur de Syrie.

3 Tous allaient se faire inscrire, chacun dans sa ville.

4 Joseph aussi monta de la Galilée, de la ville de Nazareth, pour se rendre en Judée, dans la ville de David, appelée Bethléhem, parce qu'il était de la maison et de la famille de David,

5 afin de se faire inscrire avec Marie, sa fiancée, qui était enceinte.

1 Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.

2 This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria.

3 And all men went to be numbered, everyone to his town.

4 And Joseph went up from Galilee, out of the town of Nazareth, into Judaea, to Beth-lehem, the town of David, because he was of the house and family of David,

5 To be put on the list with Mary, his future wife, who was about to become a mother.