Shulchan Arukh Orach Chayim · Siman 64

Shulchan Arukh Orach Chayim 64 — English translation

Translation: Sefaria Community Translation. Section numbers match the Hebrew text above.

1. 1Laws of One who Errs During the Recitation of the Sh'ma, containing 4 s'ifim One who read it out of order has not fulfilled [their obligation]. This applies with regard to the order of the verses, but if one advanced a section ahead of its peer, even though they are not allowed to do so [intentionally], they have fulfilled [their obligation] since it is not adjacent in the Torah [itself].
2. 2One who read a section and erred in it: if he knows where he erred, for example, he read the whole section but skipped one verse in the middle, he returns to the beginning of that verse and finishes the section. But if one does not know where one erred, he returns to the beginning of the section.
3. 3One who erred in-between sections, in that he knows that he completed a section, but does not know if it was the first ("v'ahavta") or the second [section] ("v'haya im shamoah"), he returns to [the end of] the first section and then begins "If you will listen...".
4. 4If one is at the point of "and you shall write them" [which appears in both of the first two sections] and he does not know if it's the "and you shall write them" that is in the first section or the "and you shall write them" that is in the second section, he returns to the "and you shall write them" that is in the first [section]. And this is where one did not begin "so that your days shall be multiplied" [which immediately follows only in the second section], but if one did begin "so that your days shall be multiplied", there is no need to go back in that one can assume one followed one's routine and continued.

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