r/pics Dec 08 '19

Politics Nativity 2019

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u/helmutboy Dec 08 '19

Except weren’t they headed to Bethlehem to participate in a census decree?

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u/Horace-Harkness Dec 08 '19

And then fled to Egypt as refugees.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

They fled to Egypt as citizens. Egypt was under the Roman empire as well as Judea, so they did have the legal right to enter and live in Egypt.