Luke 2:1

1In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.

1Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all 2:1 I.e., the Roman Empirethe inhabited earth.

1Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all I.e. the Roman empirethe inhabited earth.

1Now in those days a decree went out from [the emperor] 2:1 Augustus, Rome’s first and possibly greatest emperor was born Gaius Octavius in 63 b.c. He was the great-nephew, adopted son and heir of the dictator, Julius Caesar. Under Augustus’ intelligent leadership (27 b.c.-a.d. 14) Rome entered the period of peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana.Caesar Augustus, that all the inhabited world (the Roman Empire) should be 2:1 This was the first general census conducted outside Rome that included the people of the Roman provinces.registered [in a census].

1Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.2:1 Or of the whole land or of the whole world

1In those days, Caesar Augustus made a law. It required that a list be made of everyone in the whole Roman world.