BIBLE DICTIONARY
Eden, Garden of

The home of our first parents, Adam and Eve (Gen. 2: 8 - 3: 24; Gen. 4: 16; cf. Isa. 51: 3; 2 Ne. 2: 19-25; Moses 3, 4; Abr. 5), designated as a garden, eastward in Eden. Latter-day revelation confirms the biblical account of the Garden of Eden, and adds the important information that it was located on what is now the North American continent.