Nun lasst uns den Leib begraben

For other uses, see Nun lasst uns den Leib begraben (disambiguation).

"Nun lasst uns den Leib begraben" ("now let us bury the body"; second word also spelled as "laßt" or "lasset") is a Lutheran hymn for funerals. Its text author is Michael Weiße.^[1] It is for instance included in the Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch.^[2]

Nun lasst uns den Leib begraben, German Protestant hymnal 1854

Johann Sebastian Bach set its hymn tune, Zahn No. 352,^[3] as a chorale prelude for organ: Nun lasset uns den Leib begraben, BWV 1111, one of the Neumeister Chorales.