to be registered together with Mary, who was legally promised in marriage to him and[a] was pregnant. And it happened that while they were there, the time came[b] for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 2:5 Here “and” is supplied in keeping with English style
  2. Luke 2:6 Literally “the days were completed”