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There are some flawed assumptions in the question. As Kazark said in his answer, an animal sacrifice, by itself, does not atone for a sin where you wronged another person. Per Lev. 6 (among other places), you must also make restitution. You probably also need to regret what you did (certainly true by the time of Maimonides in the 13th century; I think ...

The question is a good one, but some of the underlying suppositions need to be challenged in order to answer it. The Sacrifice of an Animal Cannot Atone For One Man In Leviticus 6, the animal's life is not enough to atone for the man's life. In some of the in-between verses which the question does not directly reference (4 and 5), the man must make ...