1. At that time the Emperor Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Roman Empire.
2. When this first census took place, Quirinius was the governor of Syria.
3. Everyone, then, went to register himself, each to his own town.
4. Joseph went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to the town of Bethlehem in Judea, the birthplace of King David. Joseph went there because he was a descendant of David.