John Gill Commentary Genesis 43:20

"and said, Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:" — Genesis 43:20 (ASV)

And said, O sir
Or, "on me, my lord" ^F1 , one said in the name of the rest, perhaps Judah, on me let the blame lie, if guilty of rudeness in making our address to you; or as the Vulgate Latin version, "we pray, sir, that you would hear us"; and so Jarchi and Aben Ezra say the phrase is expressive of beseeching, entreating, and supplicating: we came indeed down at the first time to buy food ;
not to spy the land but to buy corn, and not to get it by fraud or tricking but by paying for it the price that was required.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F1: (ynda yb) "in me Domine mi", Montanus.