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luke 2:4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,
4, 5. Not only does Joseph, who was of the royal line, go to
Bethlehem
(1Sa 16:1),
but Mary too--not from choice surely in her condition, but, probably,
for personal enrollment, as herself an heiress.