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Now it happened that in those days a decree went out from Caesar[note: Or "the emperor"] Augustus to register all the empire.
(This first registration took place [when][note: *Or perhaps "[before]"; here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was governor")] Quirinius was governor of Syria.)