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Caesar Augustus made a decree that all the world should be registered, a census should be taken throughout his empire. This census was to take place not at each person's place of residence, but, according to Jewish custom, at the town to which their family originally belonged. The decree of Augustus brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem at exactly the right time in order that the Messiah might be born there in fulfillment of prophecy - Micah 5:2.

The account is in Luke chapter 2:

Luke 2:1- 5 And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child.

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