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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

眾人各歸各城去登記戶口。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
众 人 各 归 各 城 ， 报 名 上 册 。

Contextual Overview

¹ At that time, Augustus Caesar sent an order that all people in the countries under Roman rule must list their names in a register. ² This was the first registration; it was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. ³ And all went to their own towns to be registered. ⁴ So Joseph left Nazareth, a town in Galilee, and went to the town of Bethlehem in Judea, known as the town of David. Joseph went there because he was from the family of David. ⁵ Joseph registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was now pregnant. ⁶ While they were in Bethlehem, the time came for Mary to have the baby, ⁷ and she gave birth to her first son. Because there were no rooms left in the inn, she wrapped the baby with pieces of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 23:10 - his

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing, so he rested from all his work.

Genesis 2:3
God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day, because on that day he rested from all the work he had done in creating the world.

Genesis 2:4
This is the story of the creation of the sky and the earth. When the Lord God first made the earth and the sky,

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose, and the man became a living person.

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.

Genesis 2:10
A river flowed through Eden and watered the garden. From there the river branched out to become four rivers.

Genesis 2:11
The first river, named Pishon, flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is excellent. Bdellium and onyx are also found there.

Genesis 2:13
The second river, named Gihon, flows around the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 2:14
The third river, named Tigris, flows out of Assyria toward the east. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all went to be taxed,.... Throughout Judea, Galilee, and Syria; men, women, and children;

every one into his own city; where he was born, and had any estate, and to which he belonged.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 2:3. And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. — The Roman census was an institution of Servius Tullius, sixth king of Rome. From the account which Dionysius of Halicarnassus gives of it; we may at once see its nature.

"He ordered all the citizens of Rome to register their estates according to their value in money, taking an oath, in a form he prescribed, to deliver a faithful account according to the best of their knowledge, specifying the names of their parents, their own age, the names of their wives and children, adding also what quarter of the city, or what town in the country, they lived in." Ant. Rom. l. iv. c. 15. p. 212. Edit. Huds.

A Roman census appears to have consisted of these two parts:

1. The account which the people were obliged to give in of their names, quality, employments, wives, children, servants, and estates; and

2. The value set upon the estates by the censors, and the proportion in which they adjudged them to contribute to the defence and support of the state, either in men or money, or both: and this seems to have been the design of the census or enrolment in the text. This census was probably similar to that made in England in the reign of William the Conqueror, which is contained in what is termed Domesday Book, now in the Chapter House, Westminster, and dated 1086.