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From Nazareth it is a distance of seventy-five miles to Bethlehem of Judea. For Joseph and Mary and Anna and Joachim-the aged father and mother also had to go down to be counted-that made a three-day journey. The two women rode on stubborn little Galilean donkeys, while their men trudged alongside and held on to the reins.
They went by the way of the great pilgrim road, running north and south, crowded with other families, on donkey and traveling afoot. Wayfarers by the thousands cluttered the highway, all leaving their homes because the Emperor of Rome had said that they must. Resenting the edict, most of them, nevertheless, made a holiday of the excursion; friendly bands kept together and camped and cooked and at night pitched tents around wood fires; they slept on blankets spread upon the ground.