Exodus1-5: Are We Different?

Egypt has the people of Israel as their slaves. The king ordered the people that observed the slaves to treat them harder. But the inverse effect happened, “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. “Exodus Ch1 Vs12. Sometimes when I am playing tennis I try play harder and stronger to be able to win, but in that sense I get more fatigued and tired so then I lose. This shows how sometimes in life you try to do something that you think that will have a perfect effect, but as soon as you do it the effect that happens is the contrary of what you thought that would happen. When Moses goes to the sacred mountain to talk to God he starts to wonder why the flame appears but the tree in which the flame is at doesn’t consume itself. This shows how the human race sometimes doesn’t believe what they are told, but they have to see what they have been told to truly believe it. In the Old Testament people seem to live a lot more than any normal person today. I wonder why this difference in years happens. Could it be that time was measured in a different way at that time? Can people live that long? If people were so healthy at that time that they lived so long, why do us live so short compared to them? One guess I could think of that explains this is that God was with those humans always so that when they had diseases he cured them and they lived longer.