Everything Oatmeal Ball

I made this in ball shape, only because it can save a lot of spaces when bake and less efforts in making it, and it is fun to eat it too.

Here are my Everything Oatmeal Ball’s ingredients; oatmeal, butter, coconut flour, pecans, almond, peanuts, sugar, cocoa powder, flaxseed meal, milk and raisin.

Feel free to substitute the nuts and the dry fruits or other ingredients that you prefer.

My younger one loves cooked oatmeal with eggs, but not so appreciate with this oatmeal ball, however, my older son is on the contrary.

You cannot please everyone, period.

Note: roasts all the nuts and cool them down before add in with other ingredients.

dumbbells

Dumbbells + Pain + Fear + Pray = Recovered

I had this right shoulder pain for couples of weeks.

Two nights earlier, while I was boringly watching TV, I thought, let me exercised my both arms with the dumbbells.

After some time of exercise and when I about to go to bed, I suddenly felt trouble in my heart, oh no, what if after this arm exercise with dumbbells, worsen my shoulder pain, I prayed extreme hard, not for my pain but for my fears.

The second day, my weeks right shoulder pain, totally gone, this morning when I visited one of my fellowship friend's dad, who fell weeks ago and heard he said, he is kind of afraid of doing the therapy due to the pain, so I sharing my personal experience to him, hope this will encourage him.

鹹雞蛋 salted egg

6-2-2017, first time to try to make salted eggs. 第一次試作鹹雞蛋。
雞蛋放在白酒中逐個浸蘸一下，再滾上精鹽，放入容器內，約22天即成。

I didn't wash the eggs as the suggestion from others. 

Instead, I kind of using the white rice wine to wash and rinse them then covered the eggs with fine Himalayan salt and then wrap them up with plastic wrap, store in an airy dark cool for 22 days.

It tastes good; also I find it interesting that that actually tastes very different from when you cook fresh eggs with salt.

For the first, I’m not sure that I’ll success, so I only tried three first, next time I should try more at a time.

I wonder that is the reason why Prosciutto and Bacon taste good, the salts, or the other seasonings, spices or herbs infused in the food evenly.

van

Recently, I found that at least 4 of senior church members, live in the same city as me. 

Maybe, I should get a van so we all can carpool when go to church.

Friday

I don't know why my mindset, thought yesterday is today, let me explain this to you real quick, I don't want to confuse you.

Yesterday, I emailed an on sale news to our company's Internet deportment have her to post on our web about "Super Pets" this coming weekend's special sale. 

And then at night, I was wondering how come I didn't get to receive the email from the person who is in charge of posting news; that she normally inform us about our news been posted on the web?

So I thought maybe she just forgot to email me, and the on sale news was already been posted on the web, and I checked, no surprised it was not there yet, I was so upset.

This morning when I woke up, I suddenly realized that today is Friday, what a relief and that's how I wish, every day is Friday.

Today is not yesterday, so why bother?
Today is not tomorrow, why worry?
Seize and cherish what you have now.

Dementia, Autism

https://www.caregiver.org/caregivers-guide-understanding-dementia-behaviors

https://autismcitizen.org/autism-a-learners-guide/

These are just 2 of the information that I found on the internet, try to be a more supporting and understanding person when encountering them and their direct relatives.

Big Saver Foods

Couldn't believe my eyes when I went shopping at Big Saver Foods yesterday, can hardly find a parking spot, no shopping carts are available and the whole store were full of shoppers.

Every week it has three different sales day; Wednesday; Thursday; Friday, Saturday and Sunday specials.

It’s like almost every day of the week has sale except it’s different products on different day, I don’t really like that. I understand that is a marketing strategy.

our voice is also a musical instrument

I always hoping that I can play at least one music instrument well.

Lately I start a routinely visiting two of my church members once a week; one is injured from falling, the other injured from car accident; chatting, praying and singing songs with them; that’s the least that I can do.

Still remember one of my favor choir instructor used to say; as long as you can talk then you can sing and voice is one of the music instrument and the best gift from our God.

Thank God for giving us a walking music instrument.

What you a social work, psychologist, doctor?

You be the judge.

The following is the conversation between A and One of the elderly resident after A pray for her after our rehabilitation center service.

One of the elderly resident: I have urethritis, but they don't give me medicine.

A: you should ask them.

One of the elderly resident: nobody will care about us.

A: what color is your urine?

One of the elderly resident: I don't know, I wear adult diaper.

A: if you feel pain or burn when you pee, ask them for the medicine.

From my understanding, the staff been given her cranberry juice and she didn't even had a fever, I’m not a doctor, but I think that's the reason why they didn't give her medicine.

This conversation continue.................
A: do you have kids? Do they come to visit you?

One of the elderly resident: oh! Not really, they live far away and they are busy with their church service.

A: you should ask them to visit you once a week.

One of the elderly resident: this and that; such and such; well, maybe the daughter in law won't agree to do so.

That was when, I couldn't stand to continuing to listen to this infinity conversation, so, I left, without, saying goodbye, and then, I went alone to my regular visiting other residents and of course, I came back to this One of the elderly resident, to talk her a bit more and to say goodbye to her.

If you were a volunteer, what are you supposed to do? I’ve been serving in this community for years. 

And I've seen, different kind of children of the residents in this facility and other facilities.

One of them came visited his mom for the first week and then decided to take his mom home and took care of her himself. 

One, I truly don't know what's his concern, he sent his mom to this facility, not too far away from his home, but couples of cities away though.

Another one, move her dad from different city to the city where she live in, the only reason is, she wants be close to her dad.

春卷 fried spring roll

冒著生命危險煎的春卷！

好燙！好香！好吃！

Seriously, I wore oven mitten, while I fry this!

It's hot, it smells good and it's delicious!

原料：綠豆芽、小蘿蔔芽、紅蘿蔔、莕鮑菇  訣竅：快包、快煎、快吃

Stir fry shredded carrots first, then add in Mung bean sprouts, radish sprouts, and then  Pleurotus eryngii, the last, flavored with salt, sauce soy and fleshly ground pepper.

When done, set it aside, drain off as much juice as possible.

Wrap in 3 T of mix vegetables with spring roll wrappers, fry it as soon as possible and enjoy it.

阿根廷紅蝦 Argentina pink shrimp

So sweet, so good, and costs a bit more than $1 per piece; wild caught, not farm-raised, it’s worthy!

潘越雲 Michelle Pan (A Pan)【天天天藍 Forever blue sky】

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Dt5MhlPsM

It’s a famous Taiwan Campus Folk Songs, a Lyrical Song.

Yesterday when I was driving home, I thought about part of the lyrics,

"不知情的孩子，他還要問你的眼睛，為什麼出汗; 

an innocent boy asks, Why are your eyes sweating?”

Don't get me wrong, it was nothing to do with love; it was super-hot yesterday, almost 100°F, I was sweating and feeling a bit upset about something (the company), I cried, so, it was mix with sweats and tears.

Lyrics:

天天天藍　教我不想他也難 

不知情的孩子　他還要問 

你的眼睛　為什麼出汗 

情是深　意是濃 

離是苦　想是空

Blue is my heart blue as the sky, it’s hard not thinking about him/her.

An innocent boy asks,

Why are your eyes sweating?

Love is deep, affection is strong.

Separation is bitter, yearning is invalid.

Onion & Tomato

Onion, when eat raw, tastes spicy, after cook, sweet.

Tomato, tastes sweet, uncooked, after cook, sour.

upset

My whole weekend's joy can easily be destroyed by a weekly meeting.

That’s exactly, how weak is a human being.

Plant

A plant from a friend died, probably because some kind of disease, I was frustrated.

Less than 2 months ago, his daughter had a rather serve incident and injured badly.

Lately this plant re-sprout, may this be the sign of his daughter's fully recovery.

Joke of the day

A smart car accidentally drove in a convenient store in China and he did buy something, or was he did it on purpose.

Hey! We shall have this kind of drive through store here; for smart car only, but if you have a smart car, no worry, we'll sale you one.

Thinking chair

The other day, I was thinking that I should buy a small chair, like a stool for me to sit on while I do the yard work.

And then I found a small good as new child chair that is abandoned by our nearby neighbor, did someone says, “One woman's trash is another woman's treasure”.

Therefore, I adopted it, and it is not just a working chair, it also is my observing (the garden plants) and thinking chair.

Not just that is so grand, for I have a back problem, this chair with back and arms is much better than a stool without the back to support my back.

Wanted: Plant Identifiers.

Carrot Flowers

One of fact that I found from Wikipedia; they can also be good companions for other plants; if left to flower, the carrot, like any umbellifer, attracts predatory wasps that kill many garden pests.

No wonder that I found a wasp in the yard today; I’m scared at the same time.

Melon Flowers

Lettuce Flowers

Interestingly to find some fun facts about it, here's one of them, Lettuce bolting to seed cannot be reversed, and when it happens it’s time to replace the cool season vegetables with more heat tolerant plants. 

And this the fourth day that I found this pretty flower; the flower only bloom for one day, the first and the second day, I found one of each, the third day, 8 flowers, today, 20 flowers.

Towel Teddy Bear!

Finally, after many tries, I made it, the towel teddy bear.

ALDI - 6

Weeks ago, the promotion for strawberry, 79¢ per pound, it's a fairly good price, but the strawberries are giant, even my sons say, it looks scarily huge.

Here’s the brand and barcode of it.

I’ve searching to see, is this GMO (genetically modified organism) produce?

The result shows, there's no GMO strawberries, some say, it's mutant, and other says, it probably has ripening agents and fruit-expanders are added to the fertilizers. 

Here are tips to distinguish them that I found from the web . Firstly, the shapes; normal strawberries are the shape of heart, while huge strawberries are usually of conic shapes. Secondly, the color of strawberries would not be evenly distributed; they would look green at the bottom and red at the top. Thirdly, the seeds on the surface of normal strawberries are golden, while the seeds of inferior ones are rather red. Lastly, if you break off or cut it, you will find them are white and empty in the middle, but ordinary strawberries are full. In addition, we can judge them by their tastes; the huge ones are tasteless. 

Coupon

$5 off your purchase of $25 or more; Smart & Final, in certain 3 days.

$10 off your purchase of $50 or more; Sprout, only can use in one certain day.

Apparently, I missed them, can't they just allow more days to use the coupons, like 7 days to use them, I was planning to use them.

Jokes of the day

1). one of our church member graduated from seminary school the past Saturday.

He’s a doctor, so normally, we call doctor, a MD and I was joking with my son said, "Dr. S got another MD", master of divinity.

2). Dr. S was joking about what's next, and I said, PhD.

repair

My poor car, I have the windshield glass change last week and the battery replaced yesterday.

For the glass, according to my repairman, it's not necessary to change it, the small crack is not going to spread, but still I insisted to change it, I don't feel save.

And as for my battery; I've noticing from last week, whenever I start the car, it didn't sound right, so I was planning to have a check this morning, but the battery died yesterday morning when I started the car. Good thing is I'm an AAA member, so i call them for help, and change the battery.

I got a perfect excuse, not to attend our company's weekly meeting yesterday, yes!

sandwish

My kind of sandwich, coconut-green tea-red bean bread with cheese, peanut butter and avocado.

eggs

Not long ago, egg prices on the rise across California.

Lately the price drop dramatically; months ago grocery outlet, gave away 2 free dozen of large eggs; this week, smart and final, 99¢ for 18 extra large eggs, you need to buy 4 to get this discount though.

Wondering why? Do the hens (lay too much eggs), the business owners go crazy?

ALDI - 7

http://www.chocolatebar.com/?portfolio=dark-chocolate-with-88-cocoa

The chocolate bar that I bought from ALDI, inside the wrap has an interesting story.

audio equipment

A: one of the audio equipment, the wireless microphone system, I bought it out of my own pocket, I need it back.
C: oh, I see, I'll bring them to you next time.

C (call B): A told me, such and such, should I return the whole audio equipment (which are useless to me, and I just cannot wait to get rid of them since I have a small house/space) to him or just the one that he pay for it?
B: of course the whole audio equipment, yeah, he told me about it, after all, he is the one who in charge of it. And he spent a lot of efforts on purchasing the audio equipment.
C: oh, I see.
B: but he has never come on time for the service.

The reason why the audio equipment is with me, there's one time, A cannot make it for the service months ago, he had someone to send the audio equipment over, and I knew that we are going to have two brand new microphones with built-in speakers soon which are donated by my boss and also A is always late since one point, was it from the pastor left our team? I don't quite remember, do I care, no, not at all, but if you are a volunteer, please commit your time, energy and passion.

That's when, I told B, oh, since I live closer, I'll keep and carry this bulky audio equipment to the service from now on.

News, news, A came on time last service! What a team!

Worship songs

B: we are going to have a list of worship songs list, the worship leader get to pick 2 songs from the list and one or two songs of his or her choice every time.

C: oh, I see.

B: one of the elderly resident suggested twice before that we pick songs that are not so new so she can follow and sing along with.

C: oh, I see.

B: besides, actually, at the very beginning, I and pastor wanted to do so.

C: oh, I see.

C: how's our worship songs today? 

One of the elderly resident: good, I can pretty much follow and sing along with all the songs that you guys pick.

(B email the rules, the song picking rules to us)

A: did you see the email from B, I’m the one who suggest it?

C: oh, I see.

(B is on vacation for months)

C (called): did you get to see the email of last time's worship songs that A pick, none of the three songs are from the list, did you guys decided to change the policy?

B: no, I thought one of songs is from the list, let me double check. He’s the one of the people that suggested it, he should follow the rules.

C: oh, I see.

B: wait a minute, you guys didn't follow the rules before.

C: I & D followed the rules since you announced.

NO BAKE TRAIL MIX COOKIES

Still I bake them at 350°F for couples of minutes. The unbaked ones taste like dough to me.

INGREDIENTS

½ C sugar

¼ C unsweetened baking cocoa

½ C butter (melted)

1 C milk

1 C peanut butter (homemade, without any additions)

6 C rolled oats

2½ C trail mix (mine included almonds, cashews and raisins)

INSTRUCTIONS

As my usual doing, mix all the dry ingredients first then add in the wet ingredients one by one blend really well and then make them into cookie shape or you can make it into rolls, wrap in plastic wraps, put it in fridge for couples of hours, and then cut into pieces (quarter inch).

Road to Seoul

Finally, we are here, no meat for the next 7 days, or I should say, no food for the next 7 days.

There are 3 different options/prices/menus to choose from, we picked the basic one. And the menu is poorly designed.

If you are a meat eater, you come to the right place, not me though. 

It also has a simple salad bar, their pineapples are real good, personally, and I like it eat with kimchi.

I don't really enjoy too much marinade, but as long as the kids like it. Happy kids happy mom.

We all got free soda by checking in Road to Seoul from Facebook, and raffles tickets for a chance to win. For the raffle tickets; it’s 2 per person during weekday, 1 per person at the weekend, no fair, we pay more.

And also we tried cow stomach and calf intestine; the cow stomach is good, but not the calf intestine, it feels like they didn't even clean it.

Life is full of surprises!

Life is short, life is tough.

It can also full of joys and creativeness, depends upon how you think and act.

Sprouting Carrot Tops

Strawberry Plants from an Almost Rotten Strawberry.

Celery Flowers

Pit Composting. Magic happen! Melons' seeds grow.

Pumpkin plants grow from seeds.

Exodus - 3

Not long ago, when I was pondering about what to share at my rehabilitation center service, then I thought, maybe I can just summary our church Sunday message.

Then I completely forget about it.

And then, I was planning to read the bible from the very beginning, Genesis, chapter by chapter, so, I thought, why don't I just share about what I read one by one as I read alone.

I just finished Exodus, and I’ll share this chapter in two sections.

And then, I realized that church’s messages are revolving around exodus for weeks, amazing!

reusable grocery bags - 1

I was just thinking about that I gave a friend some homegrown lemons and he should give the bag back to me, so I can give some more to him again and again (reuse the bag) and there, the bag was returned to me, without me telling him.

prayer

Kids decided to have dinner with church friends.

Besides pray for their safety, I guess, I’ll just go do some grocery shopping, window shopping or whatever shopping alone.

Dried Longan 桂圓

Dried Longan

Before cooked.

After cooked

The reason that I made my own dried longan, is, that the store buy is always very expensive and not all (at least by far I didn't get to find one without the sulfite) but most of them add sulfite as a preservative and antioxidant.

Dried longan is one of my favorite foods since childhood; you can eat them alone or cook with sweet rice and with some brown sugar and a tiny little bit of cooking wine to cook with.

Making your own dried longan, it's not that complicated, only a time consuming job, you can either sun dry or oven dry them, for me, I use a little bit time before the oven reach it's baking temperature, that's say 350 or 400°F and the leftover oven heat. 

If you plan to oven dry them straight, meaning, not doing like me, using the fragmentary times here and there, remember only set the temperature as low as 130-160°F, the temperature and drying length depends upon what kind or thickness of the fruits that you have.

jokes of the day

Yesterday we passed by a house painted in Green, I said to my sons, "look, it's a greenhouse", and I look at the street sign, Orange St., "now, that's not right, a green house on Orange St.!?"

We bought the Member's Mark 3-Piece Stainless Steel Beverage Set from Sam’s club, it's a set of one 64 oz. stainless steel growler and two 10 oz. stainless steel cups and my son said, "so, I can bring them and share the water with friends", and I said, or we can bake cupcakes with it", get it, cup cakes.

Or make 筒仔米糕 tube rice pudding, a popular Taiwanese dish, with it.

Exodus - 1

In real life we may be physically slaved, bad habit, anger, jealousness, internet and etc. only by the power of God, we can get out of it.

No Longer Slaves
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3SZnQfALk8U

Moses wrote the first five books of the bible; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Last time we talked about Joseph in the first book of bible, Genesis, let's continue to read the second book of the bible, Exodus about the story of Moses.

Age of Moses when called by God, Exodus 7:7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh. 

Moses refuse God's calling.

Exodus 4:10-17

¹⁰ And Moses said unto the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant; but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue.” ¹¹ And the Lord said unto him, “Who hath made man’s mouth? Or who maketh the dumb or deaf, or the seeing or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? ¹² Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say.” ¹³ And he said, “O my Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send.” ¹⁴ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. ¹⁵ And thou shalt speak unto him and put words in his mouth; and I will be with thy mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. ¹⁶ And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God. ¹⁷ And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.”

Exodus 出埃及記 1 - 15:21
Why did God harden Pharaoh’s heart? Does Pharaoh has his own will?
The pharaoh doesn't even concern about his own people.

Exodus 1 以色列人受欺壓  the Israelites Oppressed in Egypt.

5 以色列的眾子帶著家眷跟雅各一起去了埃及, 子孫總共有七十人.

7 以色列人生養眾多，人口大增，很快就遍佈埃及，成為一個強大的民族。 8 那時，埃及有一位不認識約瑟的新王登基， 9 對他的百姓說：「你們看，以色列人比我們多，又比我們強。 10 來吧！我們要設法阻止他們人口增長，否則一遇到戰爭，他們便會加入我們敵人的陣營來攻打我們，然後一走了之。」

16 「你們在替希伯來婦女接生的時候，如果看到生下的是男嬰，就把他殺掉；如果是女嬰，就讓她活下來。」 17 但這兩個接生婆敬畏上帝，沒有執行王的命令，而是保留了男嬰的性命。

22 後來，法老命令全埃及的人把以色列人生的所有男嬰都拋進尼羅河裡，只讓女嬰活著。

Exodus 2 摩西出生 The Birth of Moses

10 孩子漸漸長大，她便把他帶到公主那裡，孩子就做了公主的兒子。公主給孩子取名叫摩西，意思是「我把他從水中拉了上來」。

11 後來，摩西長大了，他去看望做苦工的希伯來同胞，看見一個埃及人在毆打他的一個希伯來同胞。 12 他左右觀望，見四下無人，便下手殺了那埃及人，把屍體埋藏在沙地裡。

23 過了多年，埃及王死了。以色列人受盡奴役，就哀歎呼求，聲音傳到上帝那裡。 24 上帝聽見他們的哀聲，顧念從前跟亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各所立的約， 25 就垂顧他們，體恤他們。

Exodus 3 上帝呼召摩西 The Burning Bush, The Mission of Moses

4 耶和華上帝見他要上前觀看，就從荊棘叢中呼喚他說：「摩西！摩西！」摩西說：「我在這裡。」

11 但摩西對上帝說：「我是誰啊？怎麼能去見法老，把以色列人從埃及領出來呢？」 12 上帝說：「我必與你同在，你帶百姓離開埃及後，你們必在這座山上事奉我——這將是我派你去的證據。」 

19 我也知道除非我用大能的手向他施壓，不然埃及王不會讓你們離開。 20 因此，我必伸手行各種神蹟攻擊埃及，之後他必讓你們離開。 

Exodus 4 上帝賜摩西能力 Moses Given Powers

1 - 5 杖與蛇; 6 - 7 手痲瘋病; 9 尼羅河裡的水來倒在旱地上變成血

10 摩西對耶和華說：「主啊！我向來不善言辭，即使你對僕人說話以後，我還是不善言辭，因為我是個拙口笨舌的人。」 11 耶和華對他說：「是誰造人的口舌？是誰使人變成啞巴或聾子？是誰使人目明或眼瞎？不都是我耶和華嗎？ 12 去吧！我必賜給你口才，指示你說什麼話。」 13 但是摩西說：「主啊，請派其他人去吧。」 14 耶和華向摩西發怒說：「利未人亞倫不是你哥哥嗎？他是個能言善辯的人，正要來迎接你。他見到你一定很歡喜。 15 你要把該說的話傳給他，我會賜你們口才，教你們如何行事。 16 他要替你向百姓說話，做你的發言人，你對他來說就像上帝一樣。 17 你要把手杖帶在身邊，以便行神蹟。」

Exodus 5 摩西和亞倫首次見法老、加重迫害以色列人 Israel’s Labor Increased

1 之後，摩西和亞倫去見法老，對他說：「以色列的上帝耶和華說，『放我的子民走，讓他們到曠野去為我守節期。』」 2 法老說：「耶和華是誰？我憑什麼要聽從祂，放走以色列人？我不認識祂，也不會讓以色列人離開！

草與製磚; 22 摩西回到耶和華那裡說：「主啊！你為什麼這樣苦待你的子民呢？為什麼要派我去呢？ 23 自從我去法老那裡奉你的名發言後，他更加虐待你的子民，你並沒有拯救他們。」

Exodus 6 耶和華對摩西的應許 God Promises Action

6 所以，你要轉告以色列人說，『我是耶和華。我要伸出臂膀重重地懲罰埃及，救贖你們脫離埃及人的轄制，脫離他們的奴役。 7 我要接納你們做我的子民，我要做你們的上帝。這樣，你們就知道我是你們的上帝耶和華，曾救你們脫離埃及人的轄制。 8 我必帶領你們進入我舉手起誓要給亞伯拉罕、以撒和雅各的那片土地，把它賜給你們作產業。我是耶和華。』」

Exodus 7 亞倫和摩西面見法老 “I Will Stretch Out My Hand”

以杖變蛇、水變血之災 Aaron’s Rod Becomes a Serpent, Water Is Turned to Blood

蛙災、虱災、蒼蠅之災 Frogs over the Land, The Plague of Insects (Exodus 8)

瘟疫之災、膿瘡之災、冰雹之災 The Plague of Pestilence, Boils, Hail (Exodus 9)

蝗蟲之災、黑暗之災 The Plague of Locusts, Darkness over the Land (Exodus 10)

滅長子之災 The Plague of the firstborn (Exodus 11) 

逾越節、除酵節、逾越節的禮儀、滅頭生之災、以色列人出埃及、 逾越節條例 Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread (Exodus 12)

37 以色列百姓從埃及的蘭塞啟行，前往疏割，婦女孩童不算在內，單是步行的男子就有六十萬， 38 同行的還有許多外族人和大群的牛羊。 39 他們用從埃及帶出來的麵團烤成無酵餅，麵團沒有酵，因為他們被催促離開埃及，沒有時間準備食物。 40 以色列人在埃及共住了四百三十年， 41 正好滿了四百三十年的那一天，耶和華帶領以色列大隊人馬離開了埃及。 42 那天晚上是耶和華把祂的子民帶出埃及之夜，因此以後世世代代的以色列人都要在那日守夜，以尊崇耶和華。

43 耶和華對摩西和亞倫說：「以下是逾越節的條例。

「所有外族人都不可吃逾越節的羊羔， 44 但那些買來的奴隸若接受了割禮，就可以吃。 45 寄居的外族人和雇用的工人不可吃。 46 你們吃的時候，應當在房子裡吃，不得把肉帶到外面去，也不可折斷羊羔的一根骨頭。 47 以色列全體會眾都要守這節期。 48 跟你們住在一起的外族人如果想為耶和華守逾越節，他全家的男子都必須接受割禮，這樣才可以像以色列人一樣守逾越節，但沒有接受割禮的人絕不可吃逾越節的羊羔。 49 本地人和在你們中間寄居的外族人都要遵守這規矩。」

50 耶和華怎樣吩咐摩西和亞倫，以色列百姓都遵命而行。 51 就在那一天，耶和華帶領以色列大隊人馬離開了埃及。

奉獻頭胎、雲柱和火柱 Consecration of the Firstborn, God Leads the People (Pillar of cloud & fire) (Exodus 13)

17 法老讓以色列人離開埃及後，上帝沒有帶領他們穿越非利士地區，雖然那是條捷徑。因為上帝說：「如果他們遇上戰爭，就會改變主意，返回埃及。」 18 所以，上帝領他們繞道而行，走曠野的路，前往紅海。以色列人離開埃及時都帶著兵器。 19 摩西把約瑟的骸骨一起帶走，因為約瑟曾叫以色列人鄭重發誓，對他們說：「上帝必眷顧你們，把你們帶出埃及，那時你們要把我的骸骨也一起帶走。」 20 以色列人從疏割啟程，來到曠野邊緣的以倘安營。 21 耶和華走在他們前面，白天用雲柱為他們指示道路，晚上用火柱照亮他們，這樣他們可以日夜趕路。 22 白天的雲柱和晚上的火柱從不離開他們。

過紅海 Pharaoh in Pursuit, The Sea Is Divided (Exodus 14)

10 以色列人看見法老大軍追了上來，非常害怕，便呼求耶和華。 11 他們對摩西說：「難道埃及沒有墳地，要你帶我們出來死在曠野嗎？為什麼要帶我們離開埃及呢？ 12 我們對你說過，別管我們，就讓我們服侍埃及人吧。服侍埃及人總比死在曠野好啊！」 13 摩西對百姓說：「你們不用害怕，站穩了，看耶和華用什麼方法解救你們。你們再也看不到你們今天看到的埃及人了。 14 耶和華必為你們爭戰，你們要保持鎮靜。」 15 耶和華對摩西說：「為什麼向我呼求呢？吩咐以色列人往前走吧。 16 你舉手向海伸出手杖，把海水分開，以色列人可以從中間的乾地走過去。 17 我要使埃及人的心剛硬，他們會緊追不捨，跟著你們走進海底。我要在法老及其大軍、戰車和騎兵身上得到榮耀。 18 當我在法老及其戰車和騎兵身上得到榮耀時，埃及人就知道我是耶和華。」

摩西頌讚耶和華、米利暗之歌 The Song of Moses and Israel (Exodus 15:1-21)

18「耶和華必做王，直到永永遠遠。」