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Luke 2:1

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*And it came to pass in those days, that there went out aa decree from Caesar Augustus, that all bthe world should be ||taxed.

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Footnotes

  1. *[Before the account called Anno Domini the fifth year]
  2. aActs 17:7. So Acts 16:4. Eph. 2:15. Col. 2:14.
  3. bSee Matt. 24:14.
  4. ||Or, enrolled. Heb. 12:23 marg.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered.

NLTNew Living Translation

At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Now it happened that in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire.