In those days a decree went out from Caesar
Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
This was the first enrollment, when Quirini-us was
governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled,
each to his own city. And Joseph also went up
from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea,
to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem,
because he was of the house and lineage of David,
to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was
with child. And while they were there, the time
came for her to be delivered. And she gave birth
to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling
cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there
was no place for them in the inn.
--The Bible, Luke John 1:12