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An official hands a rolled decree to a messenger in a Roman administrative courtyard.
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Luke 2:1

A Decree Goes Out

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Story guide: An official hands a rolled decree to a messenger, opening the account of the registration ordered by Augustus.

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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.

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