NIV: In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
NAS: Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.
KJV: And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
GWT: At that time the Emperor Augustus ordered a census of the Roman Empire.
ASV: Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled.
BBE: Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.
DBY: But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world.
DRB: AND it came to pass, that in those days there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that the whole world should be enrolled.
WBS: And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
WEB: Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
YLT: And it came to pass in those days, there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world be enrolled --
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