New Revised Standard Version
And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves.

Contemporary English Version
They served as judges, deciding the easy cases themselves, but bringing the more difficult ones to Moses.

New American Bible
They rendered decisions for the people in all routine cases. The more difficult cases they referred to Moses, but all the lesser cases they settled themselves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier cases only.

And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier cases only.

at all

Exodus 18:14,22 And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night? . . .

the hard causes

Exodus 18:15,22 And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God? . . .

Deuteronomy 17:8 If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.

1 Kings 3:16-28 Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him. . . .

1 Kings 10:1 And the queen of Saba having heard of the fame of Solomon in the name of the Lord, came to try him with hard questions.

Job 29:16 I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.