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Graphic-novel illustration of the consistently designed Mary and Joseph beside the fully swaddled newborn Jesus in a stone feeding trough inside a modest Bethlehem house.
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Luke 2:1-7

Laid in a Feeding Trough

A Savior Is Born and Found · Luke 2

Story guide: Mary and Joseph stand beside the swaddled newborn Jesus in a feeding trough, picturing his birth in Bethlehem.

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1It happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the inhabited world should be registered.

2This registration took place first while Quirinius was governing Syria.

3And everyone was going to be registered, each to his own city.

4And 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 from the house and family line of David,

5to register with Mary, who was betrothed to him and was pregnant.

6And while they were there, the days were fulfilled for her to give birth.

7And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest room.

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