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Nourshivan the Just, being one day a-hunting, would have eaten of the game which he had killed, but from the consideration that, after dressing it, his attendants had no salt to give it relish. He sent at last to buy some at the next village, but with severe injunctions not to take it without paying for it. "What would be the harm," said one of his courtiers, "if the king did not pay for a little salt?" Nourshivan answered, "If a king gathers an apple in the garden of one of his subjects, on the morrow the courtiers cut down all the trees."

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KJV: When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;

WEB: "'When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;