Translation:Mishnah/Seder Zeraim/Tractate Berakhot/Chapter 1/2/Translation

From when may one recite the Shema in the morning?

From when one can distinguish between techelet and white.

Rabbi Eliezer says: [The earliest time for the Shema is when one can distinguish] between techelet and the color of leek,

and one must finish reciting it by sunrise.

Rabbi Yehoshua says: [One may recite the Shema] until three hours [of the day],

for such is the way of the sons of kings, to arise at the third hour.

If one recites [the Shema] later than this, he has not lost out,

[but rather is] like one who reads the Torah.