Dylan or the Devil, talk about thread drift!
Yes John on our coast, the word in Hebrew is indeed murder. Thou shalt not commit murder. Each point of the Mosaic (River-born!) Law has the subject matter for libraries to expand upon and they have. What a rich source. David, as the Psalms record, meditated upon the Laws of GOD both day and night. In them he found life, his own and the life of the nation. The Scripture states that David was a man after GOD's own heart!

I have a copy of the Septuagint which is the Alexanderian Greek translation of the Bible and it is very interesting to see what the Seventy-two understood the Word to mean in terms of the Greek language. The Pentateuch is a very scholarly translation and was the first stage. It is almost certain that the remainder was not completed by the same people as the scholarship becomes almost non-existent in parts but all in all it is an educational read. Yes for their time the KJV translators did an excellent job.

King James did not himself have that much interest in the project. It was done to meet the demands of the citizenry to have a translation which they could understand. James's leanings were more to the French Catholocism, his mother being Queen Mary of Scots. His story and the history surrounding the time is very interesting. It was the time of Shakespeare and John Knox and the ideas and burgeoning intellectualism are fascinating to me.