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    9. RASHI METHOD: NonVerse
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: The common denominator of the 3 submethods of the Spreadsheet method is that inferences are made from non textual material. The 3 submethods are as follows:
    • Spreadsheet: Rashi makes inferences of a numerical nature that can be summarized in a traditional spreadsheet
    • Geometric: Rashi clarifies a Biblical text using descriptions of geometric diagrams
    • Fill-ins: Rashi supplies either real-world background material or indicates real-world inferences from a verse. The emphasis here is on the real-world, non-textual nature of the material.
    This examples applies to Rashis Gn47-21a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1320.htm
    Brief Summary: Joseph bought the people's land for food and THEREFORE rotated the cities they lived in to emphasize that they were no longer land owners (Now the Egyptians were non-citizens like the Jews)

Joseph purchased the land of the Egyptian people in exchange for food and then, to emphasize their lack of ownership, rotated the residence of the inhabitants from city to city. This is stated in Gn47-20:21 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them; so the land became Pharaoh’s. And [Rashi: Therefore to emphasize their lack of ownership] he moved them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end of it. Rashi in this comment uses real world values to explain why Joseph rotated the residences of the people. Since Rashi uses real-world values to explain the causal relationship between the acquisition of the cities and the rotating of residences we classify this Rashi as NonVerse.

Advanced Rashi: Rashi makes additional real-world comments. The rotation of the residences was not an important detail. The Biblical text hilights this detail [right after the chapter relating how Joseph's family, the Jews, come to Egypt and find they are sojourners] to show how Joseph made his family comfortable, by treating the Egyptians like sojourners since they also no longer owned their own land.