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Mary was engaged to Joseph and traveled with him to Bethlehem. She was soon going to have a baby, and while they were there, she gave birth to her first-born[a] son. She dressed him in baby clothes[b] and laid him on a bed of hay, because there was no room for them in the inn.

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Footnotes

  1. 2.7 first-born: The Jewish people said that the first-born son in each of their families belonged to the Lord.
  2. 2.7 dressed him in baby clothes: The Greek text has “wrapped him in wide strips of cloth,” which was how young babies were dressed.

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