Foreigners seem to have used camels in their trade with Egypt
...in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries B.C. when Abraham [4]
and his immediate descendants appear to have lived, camels were already
known in small numbers in the northwestern corner of the Arabian desert
where the western Arabian trade route branched out to go to Egypt
or further into Syria.
Richard W. Bulliet, The Camel and the Wheel, 1975 [6]
During the 'time of Jacob' [4]
25 .... a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels
bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Genesis, 37
This passage is used as an illustration of (possibly anachronistic)
traditional views of transportation held by the Hebrews,
not as evidence of an historic event.
[4] Abraham, father of Isaac, and his grandson Jacob
have been claimed by various people to have lived during the Middle
Kingdom, the Second Intermediate Period or even the New Kingdom. They
cannot be considered as historic persons, nor bible accounts concerning
them as reliable, scientifically acceptable testimony. On the other
hand, these stories reveal that their composers had some knowledge
of Egyptian society and can therefore be used for illustrative purposes.
