Via rulings concerning “b’not Tzlaf–chad,” Moses grants rights to the five daughters—and only survivors—of their deceased father, Tzlaf–chad.
Back in the household of Moses, Miriam, sister of Moses, carps about Moses’s “dark–skinned” wife, Zipporah. Miriam, as a consequence, is afflicted (by God, according to the Torah) with tzora–ath, a disease somewhat akin to leprosy.