John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 43:20

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And said, O sir, etc.] Or, “on me, my lord” f1772, 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 thee; or as the Vulgate Latin version, “we pray, sir, that thou wouldest 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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