Editor’s note: The following passage is from the Bible, Luke 2:1-20. In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census ...

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Today's chapter is Luke 2. Verse 24 shows us the poverty of Joseph and Mary as they come to the temple to give the sacrifice required to redeem a first-born in that time in Israel. Back in the book of ...