Lucas 2

1 And it came about at that time that a dvar malchut (decree) was sent out from Caesar Augustus to register everyone in the entire Roman Empire. 2 This former mifkad was that taken while Quirinius was ruling in Syria (see Ac 5:37 for latter). 3 And everyone was traveling to register, each to his own shtetl. 4 Now Yosef*2:4 ben Dovid also went up from the Galil, from the shtetl of Natzeret, to Yehudah, to the Ir Dovid (City of David), which is called Beit-Lechem, because he was of the mishpochah and Bais of Dovid. 5 And Yosef*2:5 ben Dovid went up to register with Miryam, who had been given to him in erusin (betrothal) and who was with child.