Abram's wealth
After receiving the Abrahamic Covenant and learning about the Promised Land of Canaan, Abram traveled in Canaan until severe famine drove him to Egypt. In Egypt, he lied about Sarai being his sister. The princes praised her beauty to Pharaoh, so she was taken into Pharaoh's house. While deceived, he gave Abram sheep, oxen, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels. (Genesis 12:16)
Abraham's servant's mission to find a wife for Isaac
Abraham's servant took 10 of his master's camels with choice gifts to find Isaac a wife from the city of Nahor in Mesopotamia. He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening when women draw water. He asked, "O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham. Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”
Before he finished speaking, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder. The servant ran to meet her and asked for a little water to drink, and she said, "Drink, my lord." She also said, "I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking." She quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw water, and she drew for all his camels. The man gazed in silence to learn whether the Lord had prospered his journey or not.
When the camels finished drinking, he gave her a ring and bracelets of gold and told her his mission. Her brother Laban ran out to the spring and told him he prepared the house and a place for the camels, so the servant unharnessed the camels, gave them straw and fodder, and spent the night with Rebekah's family, leaving with her in the morning.
(Genesis 24)
Israel's idolatry
Jeremiah prophesied that Israel was like a restless young camel: "How can you say, ‘I am not unclean, / I have not gone after the Baals’? / Look at your way in the valley; / know what you have done— / a restless young camel running here and there, / a wild donkey used to the wilderness, / in her heat sniffing the wind! / Who can restrain her lust? / None who seek her need weary themselves; / in her month they will find her. / Keep your feet from going unshod / and your throat from thirst. / But you said, ‘It is hopeless, / for I have loved foreigners, / and after them I will go.’" (Jeremiah 2:23-25)
John the Baptist's fashion
John the Baptist wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. (Matthew 3:4)