Lk 2:1-5

The Birth of Jesus. 1^* In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus^* that the whole world should be enrolled. 2This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. 4And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,^a 5to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.^b