Here is my rough outline of Exodus. Once I am done with reading the whole of the Bible I might come back and revise these rough outlines. As I read along I learn that somethings that appear as stand alone episodes are really part of larger narratives.

Exodus Outline

  –1:1-7 Re-cap of end of Genesis including a list of Jacob’s sons
  –1:8-1:22 The oppression of Israel
  –1:15-1:22 Pharaoh orders that the midwives Shiprah and Puah kill the male babies of the Hebrews, they refuse (my Bible notes that in these passages all of the action in opposition to the Pharaoh and preserve the people of Israel is taken by women)
2:1-2:10 Birth and Childhood of Moses 
2:11-2:14 Moses kills an Egyptian overseer
2:15 Moses flees to Midan
2:15-22 Moses meets his wife Zipporah by a well
2:23-25 The oppression against the Israelites increases and God takes notice (why is it that sometimes they are Hebrews and other times Israelites?)
3:1-4:17 God appears to Moses in a burning bush and charges him to go to Egypt
  –3:1-3:10 The appearance
  –3:11-4:17 Moses questions his charge ("Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and free the Israelites from Egypt" (3:11) and "Please, O Lord, make someone else your agent"(4:14))?
4:17-26 Moses journeys to Egypt
  –4:24-26 God encounters Moses and seeks to kill him, Zipporah circumcises him to protect him (is this similar to Genesis 32:23-33 when Jacob wrestles with the divine being?)
4:27-31 The Lord speaks to Aaron and Aaron meets Moses. Together they speak to the elders of Israel
5:1-5 Moses and Aaron go to Pharaoh and ask that he release the Hebrews to allow them to make a sacrifice
5:6-22 Pharaoh responds by increasing the work of the Israelites
5:22-6:13 God speaks to Moses
  –5:22-23 Moses speaks to the Lord
  –5:24-6:11 God responds
  –6:12 Moses talks back
  –6:13 The Lord responds
6:14-6:25 Lineage of Moses and Aaron
6:26-7:7 Recap of Moses and Aaron’s relationship with the Lord
7:8-10:29 Moses and Aaron meet with Pharaoh again
  –7:8-13 Moses has a magical contest with Pharaoh’s magicians
  –7:14-10:29 the plagues
    –7:14-8:15 blood, frogs and lice effect everyone (note: the formulation each plague begins with Moses coming up to Pharaoh "as he is coming out to the water" and ends with him hardening his heart)
    –8:16-9:12 insects, pestilence and boils only effect the Egyptians (note: the formulation has changed slightly here)
    –9:13-10:29 third series of plagues, again they don’t effect the Israelites, hail, locusts, darkness
    –Note: After each plague Pharaoh gets a little closer to letting the Israelites go
11:1-11:10  The Lord predicts the 10th plague
12:1-28 Preparations for the exodus and the final plague are made by the Israelites (the origin of the passage and, here at least, the start of the Jewish year)
12:29-32 The 10th plague (slaying of the first born)
12:32-13:16 The Israelites depart Egypt and the Lord gives instructions for the passover ritual
13:17-15:21 The Sea of Reeds
  –13:17-22 The Israelites make their way to the Sea of Reeds (first appearance of the Lord as a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire)
  –14:1-4 The Lord predicts that Pharaoh will pursue the Israelites
  –14:5-9 Pharaoh decides to give chase
  –14:10-14 The Israelites are frightened
  –14:15-31 Moses parts the sea, the Israelites cross and Pharaoh’s army drowns
  –15:1-21 Songs of Victory
    –15:1-18 Moses Song (note: The Jewish Study Bible suggests that this is one of the oldest texts in the Bible. It has parallels to Psalms 74:12-16, 89:10-14 and 93 and ancient myths about the storm god’s defeat of the sea god)
    –15:19 Recounting of the crossing of the sea
    –15:20-21 The Song of Miriam
15:22- The people begin to wander in the wilderness
  –15:22-17:16 Four trials
    –15:22-15:27 The water of Marah is bitter but the springs of Elim are sweet
    –16:1-36 the gift of manna (in the Wilderness of Sin)
    –17:1-7 the shortage of water at Rephidim 
    –17:8-16 Amalek and his followers attack the Israelites (first mention of Joshua is at 7:13)
  –18:1-12 Moses is reunited with his family, Jethro recognizes the Lord as greater than all gods
  –18:13-27 Moses sits as "magistrate among the people" and at the advice of Jethro establishes the judgeship. Jethro returns to his own land.
  –19:1- the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai
    –19:1-2 Israel encamps in front of the mountain
    –19:3-6 God calls out to Moses and reiterates both ownership of the Earth and the covenant with Israel
    –19:7-13 Moses gathers the elders, reports his conversation with God and then talks further with God
    –19:9-13 God says that God will appear before the people
    –19:14-15 Moses warns the people to be pure
    –19:16-23:33 God appears to the people 
    –19:20-24 God calls Moses to the mountain
    –19:25-20:18 Moses shares with the people God’s words, includes the commandments
    –20:19-23:33 Moses returns to the mountain to speak with God again
      –20:19-23:19 God gives further laws 
      –20:19-23 Worship
      –21:1-11 Slavery
      –21:12-32 Crimes against persons (note 21:22-25 includes the famous eye for an eye, here it seems to have a very specific context rather than a general one)
      –21:33-22:16 Crimes against property (note: I am not sure where 22:15-16 fits since it is about seducing young women who while their father’s property under the system of the Israelites are also persons)
      –22:17-23:9 ethical laws 
      –23:10-19 further laws pertaining to worship and sacrifice
        –23:19 the verse on "You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk" appears to be given in the context sacrificial purity
      –23:20-33 God tells the people that God is "sending an angel before you to guard you" and then promises them dominion over the promised land
    –24:1-11 God calls Moses and seventy elders to the mountain. God show’s God’s self to the elders (24:9-11)
    –24:11-31:18 God confers with Moses on the mountain for forty days and forty nights and gives Moses instructions how to create the Tabernacle, how to worship God and how priests should be ordained 
    –24:12 gift of stone tablets
    –25:1-7 gifts for God
    –25:8-27:19 Construction of the Tabernacle
      –25:10-17 ark
      –25:18-30 table
      –25:31-40 lampstands
      –26:1-37 Tabernacle
      –27:1-8 altar for sacrifices? (the Jewish study Bible says that this altar was for sacrifices, the text only implies this)
      –27:9-19 courtyard
    –27:20-28:42 institution of Aaron and his sons as priests
        –28:2-43 priestly vestments ("Aaron shall carry the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of decision over his heart, when enters the sanctuary, for remembrance before the Lord at all times." 28:29)
      –29:1-27 consecration of priests
      –29:28-42 the instructions for daily offerings
    –29:42-46 God promises to meet with the Israelites in the Tabernacle/Tent of Meeting
    –30:1-10 Altar for burning incense
      –30:1-5 construction of the altar
      –30:6-10 its use
    –30:11-16 The Census to support the priesthood
    –30:17-38 Further Instructions for the Tabernacle and Worship
      –30:17-21 The laver and washing
      –30:21-33 The anointing oil
      –30:34-38 Sacred Incense
    –31:1-11 Who the builders shall be
    –31:12-18 Reminder of the importance of the sabbath and the pact 
    –32:1-33:6 The Golden Calf Episode
    –32:1-6 Aaron makes the people a Golden Calf
    –32:7-14 The Lord sends Moses down the mountain because people are worshiping the Golden Calf 
      –32:9-14 Moses convinces God not to kill the Israelites
    –32:15-18 Moses comes down the mountain
    –32:19-20 Moses discovers the Israelites worshipping the calf, destroys the tablets of the covenant and the calf
    –32:21-24 Moses confronts Aaron
    –32:25-29 Moses rallies the Levites to slay the calf worshippers
    –32:30-33:6 Moses pronounces the people guilty and returns to the Lord to confer
      –32:45 The Lord sends a plague to the people
      –33:1-6 The Lord commands Moses to set out and promises that an angel will go with the Israelites
    –33:7-23 Moses moves the Tent of Meeting outside the camp and the Lord offers to make His presence known to Moses (How does this relate to 24:1-11)
    –34:1-28 Moses returns to the mountain for forty days and nights and sees the Lord’s presence, Moses also makes a second set of tablets, the Lord renews the covenant
    –34:12-16 Make no covenants with the inhabitants of "the land against which you are advancing"
    –34:17-26 Liturgical Calendar
    –34:29- Moses returns to the community of Israelites and offers further instructions on worship 
    –34:33-34:35 Moses wears a veil whenever he is not speaking with God
    –35:1-3 reminder about the Sabbath
    –35:4-39:43 construction of the Tabernacle (how does this relate to the Tent of Meeting that already exists?)
    –35:4-29 gifts to support the construction of the Tabernacle
    –35:30-36:1 the appointment of Bezalel and Oholiab as master builders
      –36:2-7 the overabundance of gifts
      –36:8-36:38 construction of the outside
      –37:1-38:9 construction of the inside
        –37:1-9 ark
        –37:9-37:16 table
        –37:17-24 lampstand
        –37:25-29 incense holder
        –38:1-9 altar and laver
      –38:10-20 construction of the enclosure
      –38:21-38:31 tally of materials used to make the Tabernacle
      –39:1-31 making of the priestly vestments
        –39:2-7 ephod
        –39:6-21 breastplate 
        –39:22-26 robe for the ephod
        –39:27-29 tunics
        –39:30-31 frontlet
          (note: after each item appears the formulation "as the Lord had commanded Moses)
      –39:32-43 The Tabernacle is brought to Moses, he approves
    –40:1-16 The Lord speaks to Moses, the Tabernacle is consecrated
    –40:17-33 The Tabernacle is set-up (note: again the formulation "as the Lord had commanded Moses" appears)–40:33-38 "the Presence of the Lord" enters and fills the Tabernacle