(⸀αὕτη ἀπογραφὴ πρώτη ἐγένετο ἡγεμονεύοντος τῆς Συρίας Κυρηνίου·)

(raute apographe prote egeneto egemoneuontos tes Surias Kureniou*)

haec descriptio prima facta est praeside Syriae Cyrino

(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

(And this taxing was first made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.

(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

This was the first enrolment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This census was the first in the government of Quraynus in Syria.

The census itself first took place when Cyrenius had the government of Syria.

This enrolling was first made by Cyrinus, the governor of Syria.

This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This first registration took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.

This was the first registration taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

(This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

It was the first registration made during the governorship of Quirinius in Syria;

This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first time that the Romans had made a list of everyone's names. Quirinius was the Roman ruler of Syria when it happened.

this enrollment first came to pass when Cyrenius was governor of Syria --

This first writing took place while Quirinius was ruler of Syria.

(This first registration was made when Quirinius was Governor of Syria.)

the first census since Quirinius had become governor of Syria.

(This census was taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

This was the first such registration, and it took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

This first registration took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.

This was the first enrollment, and it was made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first registration; it was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

About that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire. This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for. So Joseph went from the Galilean town of Nazareth up to Bethlehem in Judah, David’s town, for the census. As a descendant of David, he had to go there. He went with Mary, his fiancée, who was pregnant.

This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governing Syria.

This registration first took place while Quirinius was governing · Syria.

This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

And this taxing was the first, and executed when Quirinius was governor in Syria.

When this first census took place, Quirinius was the governor of Syria.

This first describing was made of Cyrenius, justice of Syria [justice, or keeper, of Syria].

(This was the first census, before the one when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

These first records were made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first enrollment, when Quirin′i-us was governor of Syria.

At that time a proclamation was made by Caesar Augustus that all the inhabited world should be registered. This was the first census, undertaken while Cyrenius was governor of Syria and everybody went to the town of his birth to be registered. Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to David’s town, Bethlehem, in Judea, because he was a direct descendant of David, to be registered with his future wife, Mary, now in the later stages of her pregnancy. So it happened that it was while they were there in Bethlehem that she came to the end of her time. She gave birth to her first child, a son. And as there was no place for them inside the inn, she wrapped him up and laid him in a manger.

This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This first enrollment occurred when Quirinius governed Syria.

This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

·This was the first registration; it was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria [or This was the first census while Quirinius was governor of Syria; or This census occurred before Quirinius was governor of Syria].

This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first enrollment, when Quirin′i-us was governor of Syria.

It was the first time a list was made of the people while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

This registration, the first of its kind, took place when Quirinius was governing in Syria.

This was the first time names were written in a book in this way. Quirinius was the ruler of Syria at that time.

This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This mifkad (census) was before that taken while Quirinius was governor in Syria.

This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This taxation was first made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first counting of all the people while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

This was the first registration taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

(This first registration took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

This first registration took place while Quirinius was being-governor of Syria.