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King James English can be difficult, so your thoughts are understandable.
King James was meant to be kind of poetic for their time, with English vocabulary and meter in many instances. But modernly, hard to understand .
One guy I listen to reads from English Standard Version ESV
sample Exodus 20:2 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020%3A2&version=ESV
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Another friend sends me verses in Lexham, where they retain God’s name “Yahweh” instead of writing in” LORD”. — they don’t go overboard with the Hebrew as some Hebrew or Sacred Names translations do, so Lexham is still easy to read.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020%3A2&version=LEB
2 “I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.
For fun, here’s some King James language history. He was King Iames, j= “y” sound! The 1611 edition was “his Maiesties” if you can zoom in on the 4th photo of the cover here https://www.antiquebible.com/shop/p/1611-the-great-he-bible-first-edition-of-the-king-james-bible?
There was no hard “j” sound “dge” as in “judge” as we know it now.
check out the fine print on the cover here https://www.ebay.com/itm/265079356912
and here, “Iames by the grace of God, a biography of the King, facsimiles on pp. 24 and 26). https://archive.org/details/TheWorkesOfTheMostHighAndMightiePrinceIamesByTheGraceOfGodKingOfGreatBritaineFra/page/n25/mode/2up “J” was pronounced like a “Y” back in early 1600’s, so Jamestown, founded in 1607, would have been pronounced like “Yamestown” so the j, y, and i all had similar soundes, interchangeable, with the “dge” sound for “j” being developed later