Excerpt from The First Christmas Story
In a Syrian village far away on the shores of the Mediterranean lived an honest carpenter, who, being a lineal descendant of David, determined, when he heard the royal decree, to go to Beth lehem, the head of his tribe; and he took with him a sweet Jewish maiden, his espoused wife. In those sober Oriental days the espousal was so sacred and binding that it could be broken only by a writ of divorcement.
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