Komentaryo sa Genesis 42:10: Rashi, Kli Yakar, Or HaChaim & Radak

לא אדני NAY, MY LORD — do not say this, for behold ועבדיך באו לשבר אכל THY SERVANTS HAVE COME TO BUY FOOD.

(Verses 10-11) “And they said to him: ‘No, my Lord,’ etc., ‘We are all sons of one man.’” Therefore, we were afraid of the evil eye, which has particular power when seeing multiple handsome brothers in one place, more than if each one was the son of a different man. This is also why our father commanded us [with the words] Why do you make yourselves conspicuous? From this we learned to conceal ourselves among those who came [to Egypt]. Therefore, your servants were not spies, for every person is presumed innocent, and whoever wishes to remove someone from this presumption of innocence must bring proof. Since you have no proof other than [the fact of] our concealment among those who came, we have already explained this [behavior]. You have no proof, and consequently, your words about you have come to see the nakedness of the land are also refuted. The brothers did not need to specifically address this accusation because Joseph himself acknowledged that the claim of you have come to see the nakedness of the land was dependent on the claim you are spies. Once the claim you are spies was rejected, the claim about seeing the nakedness of the land was automatically rejected as well.

ויאמרו אליו לא אדוני, They said to him: "No sir, etc." They said; 1) There is no reason to suspect us of spying even if we had come without a specific purpose. [I believe the author derives this from the tone-sign tipcha under the word באו; we would have expected the tone-sign mercha Ed.] 2) "In fact your servants have come to purchase food." They presented the purpose of their presence to buy food as the most natural explanantion for their journey to Egypt.