¹⁹ Then Joseph her husband being a just man, and not willing to ^(A)make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly.

2 Augustus Caesar taxeth all the world. 7 Christ is born. 13 The Angels’ Song. 21 Christ is circumcised. 22 Mary purified. 28 Simeon taketh Christ in his arms. 29 His Song. 36 Anna the Prophetess. 40 The child Christ. 46 Jesus disputeth with the doctors.

¹ And ^[a]it came to pass in those days, that there came a decree from Augustus Caesar, that all the ^[b]world should be ^[c]taxed.

² (This first taxing was made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

³ Therefore went all to be taxed, every man to his own city.

⁴ And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of a city called Nazareth, into Judea, unto the ^[d]city of ^(A)David, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and lineage of David,)

⁵ To be taxed with Mary that was given him to wife, which was with child.

⁶ ¶ And so it was, that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

⁷ And she brought forth her first begotten son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a cratch, because there was no room for them in the inn.