Verse 8
8. If there arise a matter too hard for thee The meaning evidently is this: In cases where it is difficult to decide, as to a fatal blow or in disputes about civil matters, or in cases of bodily injury, the subject must be referred for adjudication to this high judicial court. The judges appointed at Sinai were to bring to Moses such cases as they found it impossible to decide.
So after the people became settled in the land there was to be a place for the final adjudication of difficult cases. This was not an appeal from the parties involved, but a referring of the matter by the local judges.
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