sentences:  The individual elucidations form an organic whole only insofar as they refer to the same Biblical passage.Lengthy citations from ancient works are often abridged or are only partially quoted, the remainder being cited elsewhere.Since the interpretations of the ancient exegetes usually referred to several passages, and since Yalkut Shimoni endeavored to quote all such explanations, repetitions were inevitable, and aggadic sayings relating to two or more sections of the Bible were often duplicated.