# judged the people in normal circumstances

"judged the people most of the time" or "judged the people's easy cases"

# The difficult cases they brought to Moses

The author writes of telling Moses about the difficult cases as bringing him the difficult cases. Alternate translation: "the difficult cases they told Moses about" or "when there were difficult cases, they told Moses about them so that he would judge them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# the small cases

"the easy cases"

