1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,
5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.
そのころローマ皇帝アウグストから全領土の住民に各自の登録をせよとの詔勅が出た。人々は皆、登録をするために、各自の故郷へ帰っていった。ヨゼフもダヴィドの家に属し、その血筋なので、すでに身ごもっていた妻のマリアと共に登録をするためにガリラヤのナザレトの町から、ユダヤのダヴィドの町ベトレヘムに向かった。
6 And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth.
7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
彼らがベトレヘムにいる間に、マリアは産期満ちて初子を産んだ。そして、その子を布にくるんで、かいば桶に横たえた。それは、宿屋に部屋がなかったからである。