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My point was the verses about homosexuality are numerous and very direct. “Thou shalt not kill” is less direct and open to some interpolation. For example some would say murder instead of kill.

But in the Hebrew the word denotes murder verse simply killing.

"Thou shalt not kill [râtsach]." (Exodus 20:13)

râtsach, raw-tsakh'; a primitive root; properly, to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder:—put to death, kill, (man-) slay(-er), murder(-er).

to murder, slay, kill
1. (Qal) to murder, slay
  1. premeditated
  2. accidental
  3. as avenger
  4. slayer (intentional) (participle)
2. (Niphal) to be slain
3. (Piel)
  1. to murder, assassinate
  2. murderer, assassin (participle)(subst)
4. (Pual) to be killed

The KJV translates Strong's H7523 in the following manner: slayer (16x), murderer (14x), kill (5x), murder (3x), slain (3x), manslayer (2x), killing (1x), slayer (with H310) (1x), slayeth (1x), death (1x). - https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?t=kjv&strongs=h7523

Thus as said, the only real issue is when life begins, and while Scripture certainly makes it clear that the embryo is a real person before birth, yet that it begins at conception requires some degree of matter of deducement, and in which science can also be invoked. Here is good resource using both.

"Each time the Bible speaks of the unborn, there is reference to an actual person, a living human being already in existence. These Scriptures, taken in context, all indicate that God considers the unborn to be people. The language of the text continually describes them in personal terms.

Since the Bible treats those persons yet unborn as real persons, and since the development of a person is a continuum with a definite beginning at the moment of fertilization, the logical point at which a person begins to be human is at that beginning. The answer is that life begins at fertilization. Frankly, no other conclusion is possible from Scripture or science."