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What references do you need just open up the Bible dictionary and you'll get some answers there.
I have been declared from the Tribe of Judah. There aren't too many references as to blessings we receive in the scriptures. I mean as we weren't assigned the responsibility of "Gathering the Tribes". That's is mainly assigned to the tribe of Ephraim. The tribe of Judah was responsible for carrying the bloodline of Jesus and other leaders / kings of the old days. I know most of the church is Ephraim and I don't know anyone else that is from Judah. Then again... I don't go around asking which tribe people are from.
I don't know a lot about the tribe. I know my pat. Blessing was odd. I wasn't declared in the initial prayer and my father asked the pat. If this was unusual. The pat then laid his hands on my head a second time and declared me as the tribe of Judah.
I know also one from this tribe, and they from that tribe has a big work to do. Pres. Joseph F. Smith spoke about them at the last days, and what the tribes should do, and where to gather together
Of cause there is a lot of spiritual blessing from the differed tribes, but yea the gathering place is real... And I ques that why we get to know wich tribe we are from, so we know where we should go, at the last day, when Christ calls us...
In the Gospel Principles manual, it tell as well it is a literal Gathering.