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But the  city  being  crowded  with  strangers  who  had  come for the  enrolment,  they  could  not  obtain  lodging  in  the  inn,  and were forced  to  seek  shelter  in  a stable  outside  the  city. “And it came  to  pass  that,  when  they  were  there,  Mary  brought  forth her first-born  Son,  and  wrapped  Him  up  in  swaddling  clothes,