"and because of these abominations, the L-rd your G-d drives them out before you": R. Shimon said: We are hereby taught that the Canaanites were exhorted for all of these things, for one is not punished unless he is first exhorted. when R. Akiva came to this verse, he said: "Woe unto us! If the spirit of tumah reposes upon one who cleaves to tumah, how much more so should the holy spirit repose upon one who cleaves to the Shechinah! What brought this (absence of the holy spirit) about? Your sins sundered you from your G-d!"